DOMINIC
When the universe decided to strike, it did so without warning. Quietly. Making it haunting, oppressive, and so suffocating that escape felt impossible.
I had thought meeting Harper again would mean we'd reunite. Maybe I was delusional enough to believe she had been waiting for me for five years after she left New York. I could have taken anything. More rejection. More hate.
But not this.
Not her being the mother of four children. Not her having moved on. And not with him.
Julian Gallagher.
Why the fuck hadn't I realized who he was from the beginning?
The rich prick whose parents had invested heavily in my firm in Ireland.
A dry chuckle slipped past my lips as Richard continued talking, his words fading into meaningless noise. I wasn't listening anymore.
Harper had been in Ireland all along.
All those years I'd been searching. Sending Richard across continents. Scouring cities, borders, even forests, making sure she wasn't hiding somewhere unreachable.
