*Elio*

“You found Junior?”

Indignation reflected in the eyes of the woman I loved as she faced me with blazing wrath, her hand clenched around my tie hard enough that her skin had turned white. My back ached from being hunched over to be on her level, but I didn’t dare to move, simply gulped down any excuses that had been building on my tongue.

I knew like a sailor in the eye of a storm that it was already too late. I didn’t know how she had found out, ...