CHAPTER 29
“So, tell me something. What happens now?”
The gentle question landed on Amelia like a punch to the gut. What happens now? The words echoed in her mind, a terrifying and beautiful contrast to the carefree evening they had just shared. Her heart, which had been so light and full of laughter, began to pound a frantic, desperate rhythm against her ribs.
This was the question she had feared all night. She had convinced herself this was a simple, spontaneous evening, a moment of peace in the middle of their complicated lives.
But Sterling was a playboy, a master of a game she didn’t know how to play. The stories she had heard about him, the rumors she had heard from his own family—they all came rushing back, drowning out the memory of his kindness.
Was this it? Was this where t
