Chapter Eleven
Bella
THREE HOURS LATERThis damn night was never going to end.
Unable to help myself, my gaze strayed across the room toward Fox.
He was absolutely miserable. Oh, he had smiled and laughed plenty throughout the night. He acted like any man of honor at their birthday celebration should, thanking everyone who gave him a gift or wished him a good year. He made a point to small-talk with everyone who paused before him. He even made his nephew’s night by pulling him onto his lap and letting Braiden blow out the candles when it was time for the cake.
But I knew this man. Between the smiles and laughs, he bit at the corner of his lip, like he always did when he was deep in thought, and he kept fiddling with his hat, which he’d snuck back on in exchange for the party cone as so
