Chapter 366

Alexander

I ended the call and tossed the phone onto my desk.

Madison Harper. Running a café in Connecticut.

Five years without a word. No calls, no emails, not even a damn text. Just gone, like she’d never existed except in my memories and the occasional dreams I refused to acknowledge.

“Harper’s Haven,” I muttered.

What kind of name was that for a café? Too cutesy. Too small-town. Too... Madison, actually. I could almost see her, standing behind a counter, serving coffee with that small smile she used to reserve for moments when she thought I wasn’t looking.

I shook my head, trying to clear the image. This was ridiculous. I was Alexander Knight, CEO of Knight Industries. I had an empire to run, deals to close, a fiancée to...

Ah, yes, Katherine. My eternally patient fiancée. Patient wasn’t exactly the right word. Distracted was more accurate. We both were. Our engagement had become a comfortable arrangement. She had access to the Kn