Chapter 63. The Second Son (2)

Aaron tried to fix it, tried to tell Zoey who she was to him, who Emily was to him, but even as he poured his heart out to her, he couldn’t quite tell her everything. How he’d struggled those five years waiting for James to reappear and then she showed up and suddenly there was light in his dark heart. That she may not have been first in his heart, but she was the first to light it up, when he’d thought it would forever remain in the darkness. The loss of his brother, his best friend, was just too severe, too devastating. He could not see past it. Until he met her.

Even as he returned to the depths of the darkness from which she had pulled him, as he watched as they fell in love right in front of his eyes, desperately chasing after them, trying to undo it somehow, he was happy. Because the two people he loved the most in the world were happy.

He was ready to walk away when he saw James carrying Zoey in a wedding dress, looking happy, perhaps for the first time since he’d