#Chapter 37: Don’t Believe The Rumors

Amber's POV Anna looked from the screen to my face. Frowning, I blocked the call. I just... don't want to talk to him. I don't want to hear his voice. Julian’s POV After everything that happened the night before, I had a lot on my mind this morning. I could barely sleep and gave up around 4 am. I changed and came to the office, where I’d been trying to work ever since. Yet my thoughts were no less muddled here under the bright florescent lights than they’d been in the dark. Alice was Roman’s daughter. Amber had cheated on me when we’d been together. I had thought she was a dutiful housewife. What else had I been so wrong about? And why, even with that betrayal fresh on my heart, was I still drawn to her? Shouldn’t I want to cast her aside now for the lies and the pain? Yet I found that I couldn’t. I still wanted her near me. Having her back after thinking her dead… I didn’t want to lose her again. We could fix the mistakes of the past. I had been at least ha