Sometimes love burns out fastest when it burns bright.
That was Aidan and me.
We burned fast.
We burned bright.
I shouldn’t have loved him at all.
I shouldn’t have left him.
But the call of success, fame, and a dream career, pulled me away from the one man who made me come alive.
Now he hates me.
And though I have everything I thought I wanted, success, fame, legions of screaming fans,
without Aidan, it feels as if I have nothing.
He hasn’t forgiven me.
He swears he never will.
But he’s the only man I’ve ever loved,
And I can’t give him up.
Chapter One
Liz
In a matter of moments, I’ll be face to face with Aidan Court.
For the first time in seven years.
I swallow the tension tightening in my throat and try to dampen the nervousness building in my chest.
Aidan.
He hates me.
He detests me.
And I don’t blame him.
Not when I’ve spent years hating myself for what I did to him.
In front of me, slanting brass script on a white door spells out the number of actress Celeste Granger’s Park Avenue apartment. The lively sounds of a party—music, laughter, and gossip—filter through the doors and walls and into my ears, pulling at my fluttery nerves.
“You should show up at Celeste Granger’s soiree,” Natalia had suggested yesterday.
“Why on earth would I?” After abandoning my debut play on Broadway seven years ago to chase Hollywood stardom, hanging out with the theatre crowd wasn’t high on my list of preferred activities to occupy my time in New York city.
“Aidan will be there,” Natalia replied with a shrug. She’s my father’s longtime assistant, sometime lover, and now manager of McKay Theatre productions, and she always has a solid reason for everything. “The sooner you two get your…reunion out of the way, the better for the new play.”
The new play. My pretext for being in New York at all.
Now, with my inevitable confrontation with Aidan only moments away, I take a deep breath and push the door open.
The hushed whispering starts from the people standing closest to the entrance.
Liz McKay.
Liz McKay.