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Chapter 1

Cooper

I can’t breathe It physically hurts to pull oxygen into htness in htly grip the chair in front of me as I watch Reese walk down the aisle She’s beautiful, but there was never a doubt that she’d be a vision in a wedding dress For a h with it When our eyes htto call it all off

Instead, I watched as she, with her father at her side, put one foot in front of the other, passing o to him To Hunter My body is frozen as I watch her With each step she takes, it’s as if a dagger is piercing my heart

I don’t want to watch this, but she askedThe one tiret in life I had her, in my bed, in my arms, and I pushed her away That’s a mistake that I have to learn to live with, and one I will daain I should have told her sooner Just sorets

I can’t look away, no matter how badly I want to I need to see her do this I need to listen to her tell him that she vows to love hiet the e that she’s not ours

“Who gives this woman to marry this man?” the preacher asks once Reese and Garrett reach the altar

“Don’t do it,” I whisper under my breath Surely Garrett knows she’s s her hand to his lips and kisses it lightly He then takes her hand and places it in Hunter’s

Did you hear that? That loud crack is my heart as it breaks? Millions of shattered pieces that will never be the same, not without Reese

“Her mother and I do,” Garrett says proudly He steps away and takes his seat on the front row next to Eve

Mynext to Eve, and my father next to her There’s an empty seat next to my father It’s the seat I was supposed to sit in I just… couldn’t I’ in the back roould be too teo through with it Who a? The temptation is still there