Chapter 102

David POV

The townhouse door closes behind him with a soft click that feels louder than it should. David stands in the foyer for a moment, the silence pressing in from all sides. His pulse is still elevated from the fight in Nora's porch, from the way she stepped in front of him without hesitation. She put herself between him and a loaded barrel to protect him. The memory is lodged somewhere deep into his brain, so far in that he couldn't uproot it even if he wanted to. And he definitely does not want to.

No one does that for someone they're not still in love with.

“She’s married,” David mutters to the empty room, as if that is a spell that should make everything fall back into place.

It doesn’t.

He moves through the house on autopilot, flipping on lights he doesn’t need. The place h