Chapter 365 – Closure
The world seemed to have stopped.
It was a sensation Emmie usually laughed at, the kind of exaggeration she believed only existed in movies, in stories where everything was dramatized for effect.
But at that moment, in that fragile instant when she realized she had been speaking to Brandon all along, revealing her deepest insecurities, her shame, her regrets, her very soul, with wine running like blood through her veins…time truly seemed to freeze.
The bustling bar dissolved into nothingness. The laughter, the chatter, the clinking of glasses, all of it faded into silence. And the only thing that existed within her reality was the pair of calm, dark eyes staring at her…eyes that seemed to devour everything they touched.
She sat there, unmoving, her eyes wide, her delicate, rosy lips parting in a soundless gasp. Her hand trembled violently, threatening to let the glass of red wine slip and shatter on the floor.
But she held it.
