CHAPTER 22

RUSSELL'S POV

I knew that abandoning her when I had literally been the one who cajoled her into my bed was a jerk move but Charlie’s call coming in when it did seemed to have been an eye opener for me.

It was like a confirmation of all the things that Elisa had been trying to tell me which were the very things that I had been trying my hardest to ignore, but not anymore.

I wasn’t quite sure when my attraction towards Elisa began, but one day I was offering her a job at my company and the next I was asking her to get into a contract marriage with me. Between now and then, the only thing I could really say for sure was that there isn’t a single day that passes by when I don’t think about her, when I don’t miss her, when I don’t wish she was right next to me.

It didn’t matter if she was in the same room as me or if she was thousands of miles away, she always found a way to creep up into my thoughts without even trying. Before now, I had been very good at finding ways to keep these feelin