Chapter 5

Blaine's face was ice-cold when he walked out of Winslow Engineering.

He was not panicking. At least, he refused to call the feeling panic.

Meredith had simply learned to make a bigger scene to get his attention.

When her drama at home failed, she found an attorney, took a job, and wrote down a supposed divorce case number. Yet in seven years, the longest she had ever been away from him was the nine days she spent in the hospital after Nico was born.

She had never truly left him.

This time would be no different.

Once inside the car,…