Chapter 38 The Show

• Liam felt as if a red-hot hand was trying to pierce through his chest to squeeze his heart. Max was by his side, she was his wife, everything seemed to indicate that she was willing to face the storm with him... but she wasn't with him.
• The flirtation that used to be in her voice, the laughter, the intimacy between them, all of that had disappeared in an instant and Liam hadn't realized how much he needed it until what he really had by his side was the wife by contractual marriage and not his Max.
• "I can't keep doing this," he murmured, intercepting her on her way to the kitchen one of those nights.