Chapter 12
Maggie
My heart shattered the more I listened to Phoenix from the winner’s box with the other contestants.
Jane joined us, but my entire attention was on the screen for the last performance.
I’d never heard Phoenix this … vulnerable. It was magnetic and I couldn’t look away.
I’d been so upset that he’d not told me about what happened all those years ago, but I’d stopped asking. I believed the past was the past.
Yet that had ratcheted up my mistrust. I shouldn’t be kissing the guy who melted my heart with those vocals.
His voice cracked with emotional resonance and I knew he’d done it on purpose.
Phoenix Steel hit every note like he had written the words from his heart. But I stood and wrung my hands as the British judge I’d been so afraid of said, “Phoenix, your performa
