Pete lurked like a scummy creep in the shadows below the apartment building, burning his way through almost two whole packs of cigarettes. A mountain of discarded butts littered the ground at his feet.
He glued his gaze to a specific third-floor window, and even he had to admit how pathetic he looked right now.
The partner he'd once found so tedious, so annoying, was now the person he'd give anything to win back.
Was he really that much of a fool?
You never know what you've got till it's gone, right?
Every time they'd fought in the past, Nicola had always been the one to cave first.
He could only remember sweet-talking her that first year they'd started dating. After that? He'd never bothered.
Over time, he'd just assumed Nicola was the kind of woman who didn't need coddling. She wa
