Chapter 34 - The Curse Of His Life

• “Stella and I were together for eight years,” Julian says, which is a surprising way to start. “I met her in college, but she was already signed to a small label. She had been singing in bars and at parties for some time, but she had never quite found the success she sought. I helped her write a few songs until she eventually released her first successful album. She was twenty-three, just like you.”
• “Eight years is a very long time,” I state pointedly. “You’ve shared much of your lives and grown and dreamed of so much together.”
• Now, how can I compete with that? No wonder there was still some tension between them in the restaurant.