Never Meant To Love (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9783597267674)

He was my first love. My only weakness. My greatest mistake. Adrian Blackwell - billionaire, media darling, heartbreaker. I gave him everything. He gave me betrayal. Three years later, fate throws us into the same room again. Same city. Same fire. Same unfinished love. But this time... I won't be the girl who begs. And he won't walk away untouched.

Adrian Blackwell didn't lose me the night he cheated.

He lost me when he watched me walk away and said nothing.

The night I found out about the other woman wasn't dramatic.

There was no shouting.No accusations thrown across the room.No shattered glasses or slammed doors.

Just silence.

The kind that settles slowly around you until it becomes impossible to breathe.

I remember exactly where I was when I saw it- Curled up on the couch, my phone glowing softly in the dim light of the living room.

A notification.

A photograph.

At first, I didn't understand what I was looking at.

Adrian stood outside a hotel, the city lights behind him blurring into gold. A woman stood beside him, close enough that their shoulders nearly touched.

His hand rested at the small of her back.

The gesture was effortless.

Familiar.

Intimate in a way that made something deep in my chest twist painfully.

Too close.

Too comfortable.

Too real.

Beneath the photograph was a caption that felt almost cruel in its simplicity.

"Blackwell's new mystery woman?"

I stared at the screen for a long time.

Waiting.

Waiting for him to call.Waiting for a message.Waiting for Adrian to tell me the internet had it wrong.

But the phone stayed silent.

Minutes passed.

Then hours.

And slowly, painfully, I understood something I wish I hadn't.

Love doesn't always end the moment someone betrays you.

Sometimes it ends in the quiet moments afterward.

When the person you gave everything to doesn't even try to explain.

Doesn't try to apologize.

Doesn't try to stop you from walking away.

I loved Adrian Blackwell once.

More than I should have.

But when the moment came for him to fight for us-

he didn't.

He simply let me go.