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Chapter 34
Rose
ThesilverRangeRoverglides up the main driveway toward the house. I knew it was coming. It’s why I’m standing in the bedroom window of the cottage, looking out.
Watching.
Waiting.
Yet even though I knew to expect it, the slash across my heart at the sight still steals the air from my lungs in a rush, drawing out a sob that I quickly rein back in.
He’s back.
I turn, catching sight of the wide-eyed girl. Skin that’s pale and lackluster, lips that have forgotten how to smile, eyes that are dull.Dead.
I turn away from the giant ornate mirror, its beautiful, gilded bird like a taunting reminder…
Two days.
Two whole days since I last saw Dax.
Two days of him refusing to see me while he was being held in jail.
Logan went. Jasmin went. Even Larry who brought the mirror to the cottage for me went.
The entire fucking world was allowed to visit Dax.
But not me.
I was told by multiple police officers, and by Logan and Jasmin that Dax didn’t want me to visit him. He didn’t want me to see him in there. Locked up. But as my despair grew, so did the pity in their eyes. They didn’t know what to say. How could they? By the second day, he didn’t just not want me to see himin there, he didn’t want to see me—period.
The last few years of my life has been one great big shitshow. But never for one second did I expect Dax to deliver the cherry on top of it.
I sit on the end of the bed, dropping my head into my hands. But memories of Dax making love to me here flood my brain cruelly, so I jump up and head downstairs, reaching the bottom step as there’s a knock at the door.
My heart lifts in hope, then promptly drops as I open the door.
“Oh. Hi.”
“Well, it’s better than some welcomes I get, I suppose.”
Logan walks inside, then closes the door behind himself as I wander over to the front window and gaze out. I can make out parts of the top floor of the house through the trees. Dax’s bedroom window being one part. But it’s too far to see whether he’s in there. Whether he’s looking out at the cottage.
Is he thinking of me like I’m thinking of him?
Because he’s all I’ve thought about. Ever since that night in the dockyard. Ever since the light dimmed in his eyes when I told him Julian Young was his biological father. Ever since he was ripped away from me.
Gone.
Except I thought I would get him back. Once it was all sorted. Once the police had questioned him and realized it was all a mistake. That Dax is a good person. He was just protecting me. He was never going to shoot Julian.
But the cold bile settling low in my gut as I glance back at Logan’s face tells me…
I’m never getting him back.
That Dax Silver is gone. He disappeared that night. Died on the cold floor next to Julian’s two men.
“I’m sorry, Rose.” Logan shakes his head as I nod mutely and turn back to the window.
