#Chapter 118 Heartache and Heartbreak

Dominic Mira was gone, and she didn’t leave a note. I came home feeling calmer, with new conspiracies floating around my head. But I was ready to talk to her, to hear her, to put aside my bruised pride and trust the woman I loved. It wasn’t too surprising to see that she hadn’t waited to do the same, though I was still disappointed. She had made a mistake, but I had overreacted. And didn’t my behavior basically drive Mira into Lucian’s waiting arms? I thought again about finding him and punching him, but the throbbing in my cheek humbled me back to homeostasis. Mira’s touch was everywhere. Her habits were so familiar to me that I could tell that she had been trying to clean up, to reorganize, to sift through the detritus of the night before. It was something we should have done together, as a team. But I had lost my temper and walked out on her. As the clock ticked the time away, I knew she wouldn’t come back that night. I forced myself to take a painful shower and pu