Chapter 48.
Amelia stepped out of the car, her legs still trembling from the memories of yesterday. Even the soft touch of the ground beneath her heels couldn’t steady the storm swirling inside her chest. Her breaths came shallow, each one dragging with it flashes of last night—the heat of Maximo’s touch, the weight of his presence, the way he had ruined her body so thoroughly she wasn’t sure she’d ever walk the same again.
Her eyes moved around the tall house that stood before her.
She had missed this house, missed it as much as she had missed her father. Her father. The word alone pinched her chest. Thinking about him, she realized it had been ages since she last spoke to him, and that guilt weighed heavy. She made a mental note—she would drop him a message, she would be a filial dau
