Bridget's POV:
For some reason, the tension in my chest eased, though confusion still lingered.
"Weren't you supposed to be on a business trip?" I asked, looking at him. "Why are you back so early?"
Ryan stared at the man standing before him, disbelief written all over his face.
The two of them had once been as close as brothers.
Then, for reasons I never learned, they had a falling-out. Shortly afterward, Xavier Blake moved overseas, and the two had never seen each other again.
More than once, I had asked Ryan what happened between them.
He never gave me a real answer.
Instead, he would only brush it off.
"Just stay away from him," he'd say vaguely. "That's all you need to know."
Back then, I loved him too much to question it.
So I listened.
X
