Chapter Fifty: Getting her back

*Liam*

I am standing in front of the windows in my office, overlooking the city below.

It has been three days since I returned to Los Angeles and a week since I had seen her.

My heart began to ache again as it has always done for the past few days whenever I think of her. Sighing deeply, I rubbed a hand over the spot but it continued to throb even more persistently.

It almost felt like we have been separated for a lifetime and not just some few days.

Each breath I took was laced with the memory of her laughter— the ones I'd shared with her. More than once in a day, I would recall the way her eyes genuinely sparked when she was happy, or the way the tip of her nose wrinkled when she was honestly annoyed with me or even how her left eye twitches whenever she was lying.

It even reached a point where every corner of the house held fragments of her presence so much that I had to relocate to another room.

And just when I thought it wouldn't get any worse, she proceeded to hunt me in my