At that moment he bit his lip slightly, not wanting to get carried away, but it was already too late. The moment she looked him in the eye with that quiet desperation, his heart had already made its decision.
This was his second chance, James had already ruined the first. Cora marrying that selfish, arrogant, good-for-nothing man had broken Oliver's heart in ways he never told anyone.
He had watched silently as Cora's light dimmed during that marriage. He remembered the fake smiles, the tired eyes, the days she wouldn't answer her phone. It killed him that he could do nothing. That he could only be the shoulder she cried on, not the man she smiled for.
But not this time, not anymore.
