Chapter 6

XANDER'S POV

The most stressful two days of my life and it was all thanks to Laurel. The lady sure was something and she clearly still enjoys playing the same games she used to back then when we were kids and young. It seemed quite funny to her but to me, it certainly was not. It was this same game of chase that she had played when she left me three years ago.

She had told me she had boarded her flight already and I actually believed her when she sent me pictures of her in the plane, making me panic for real. I still had a wife who if not anything at all, I owed her the clearness and transparency of marriage. I needed no soothsayer to tell me that she was hurting and even though she tried hard to stand out as brave, I knew Nicolette was hurting deep inside of her.

When I had returned from that awkward meeting with Maxwell and suddenly met her on her way out, I nearly melted away and for real, my knees felt momentary like they were rubber. She looked really beautiful and