#Chapter 78: I Don’t Do One-Night Stands

Julian’s POV Watching Chase drive off with Amber made something shrivel inside of my soul. I was furious, but not in a way that I could act on. Instead that anger stayed within me, coiling around my mood and turning it darker. Even resting on the floor, I had felt a peace last night that I hadn’t experienced in years. Not since the last time I had slept beside Amber. Even from the floor, with her on the bed, her closeness gave me comfort I had long been denied. Gods, I had missed her. That yearning would continue, it seemed, perhaps indefinitely. Or at least until after Chase was done with her. I had tried to warn her against him. Again and again. Why would she get in that car with him? When she had come in here last night, she had been filled with passionate anger. She’d been furious that I had risked our reconnection by allowing Olivia into my hotel room. That anger had sparked a hope in me. If she was angry, she had to care about me, about our relationship, about o