Chapter 40 Still Mine
- ARDEN
- I turned around and saw the only man I have ever loved standing before me. However, the safety I once felt in his presence had now been replaced by a twinge of fear, and the butterflies in my stomach that once soared with giddiness now felt more akin to dread.
- “Arden,” he said my name in the same way he always had, yet his tone starkly contrasted with our last two encounters.