Chapter 5
When Sophia re-entered the bedroom, there was no sign of the condom he had flung on the floor.
Ethan was sitting on the sofa, holding two flutes of champagne. After they toasted and drank, he took her to bed and pulled her into the circle of his arms.
An emotion Ethan didn’t recognize unfurled in his chest. And then, he knew it would be her for him, forever.
After thirty-five years of waiting, I’ve found my other half. She will be mine. My Sophia. Forever. Come hell or high water. He shook his head, scared for the first time in his life. “You don’t know what you have done to me, Sophia.”
A couple of hours later, a frightening scream shattered the air, waking Ethan.
He switched on the lamp on the bedside table. Sophia, on the other side of the bed, clutched her scarred arm a
