Chapter 4

The question stopped him cold.

For one unguarded second, panic crossed his face.

Then it disappeared.

“What are you talking about?”

“I saw her messages.”

I repeated the words that had burned themselves into my mind.

“You chose me when it mattered. Now keep your promise and leave her.”

Alexander stared at me.

“Tell me what that means.”

He pulled the chair closer and sat beside the bed.

“Madeline has feelings for me,” he said carefully. “But it’s one-sided.”

I almost laughed.

“She thinks you promised to leave me.”

“She misunderstood.”

“You carried her out of the car while I…