Chapter Fifty Two

He turned and stalked toward the door. He flung it open and caught it with one hand, turning as he stepped out.

“If you change your mind later, don’t bother to come crawling back. I think you’ve made it abundantly clear what I’m good for...where I stand in your life 

And I really am done with this.”

The door slammed, and Wendy's heart shattered into tiny little pieces. She stared numbly, hoping, expecting that he’d come back and tell her they could work things out, that he understood, that he’d wait. 

Minutes passed, and the sickening realization hit her that he wasn’t coming back. 

Not only had she lost her reputation, and possibly her career, but she’d lost the one man she loved enough to have risked it all in the first place.

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Tuesday morning, Wendy took the coward’s way out and called Evan Banks to schedule vacation time for the res