ARIEL'S POV

Everything in me froze for a second.

A bride?

Was he really getting married? An ache I didn’t want to acknowledge settled in my chest. I didn’t want it to be true. But like the call said… she was close to the border.

My heart gave a violent kick as I thought back to what had happened between us in the last few hours.

I was still trembling—partly from the cold, but mostly from his touch and the way he’d stopped, again, just before I reached release. Though this time, he didn’t ask me to forget it ever happened. Not that it took away the hurt and anger....