Chapter 268

"Evelyn, you matter that much to me." That one sentence hit her like a truck, heavy and unshakable, lodging right in the depths of her heart. It burned. It hurt. She couldn’t stop the tears, even though she had a million questions ready. In the end, all she could do was wrap her arms around his neck and cry like the world was ending. Since the Harrison family's fall, Christopher had only shown her coldness and cruelty. And then her dad left her and her mom behind. Everything she had depended on came crashing down. The two men she trusted and loved most in her first eighteen years had completely vanished from her life. And to top it all off, the man who’d saved her during that stormy night... ended up taking her. For a while, everything felt like it was falling apart. Her mind, her whole world—it all collapsed. But now, in this moment, something inside her shifted. Turned out, when she wasn’t looking, someone else had stepped in, silently holding up her sky, shielding her from the storm