Chapter 68

• ALEXANDER
• For the first time in years, life felt... settled. A little over three weeks had passed since Raina told me we didn’t need to go ahead with the case. Her words still echoed in my mind, replaying over and over like a melody I couldn’t get out of my head. Each passing day chipped away at the wall she’d built between us, a wall I was determined to tear down brick by brick.
• If I could just keep it together, keep showing her that I’d changed, maybe—just maybe—she might start liking me again.