Brandon
“Are you sure you’re okay?”
Toby was behind him while Brandon laid his eyes on her for the first time in way too long. She looked breathtaking. It felt like that first day he saw her all over again.
She shook Jack’s hand, a small smile on her face, but it didn’t look genuine.
Zuriah.
His entire form shook, ready to run to her, but Jack was right. She might run. She hadn’t run before, she walked away, but she’d been hiding. It was likely she would bolt.
She was in a short red dress and the kind of shoes a woman would wear to a board meeting. The ones his mom hated to wear.
But most of all, she looked different. He couldn’t quite put it together. She looked thin, but—
That was it. The slime that was standing beside her. His scowl on Jack as Jack introduced himself.
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