Chapter 20: Push to Pursue
It had been four years since Cassidy vanished from Zeke’s life, as if the earth had swallowed her whole.
For the first two years, Zeke had always asked Georgia about her sister’s whereabouts. Georgia’s answers never changed. "She’s doing fine," she would say, or, "She’s still healing. You don’t need to worry."
Maybe they weren’t meant to be, and maybe Cassidy truly wanted a new life, one without Zeke in it. Everyone else seemed to move on with that belief.
Everyone, except Zeke.
But after his accident two years ago, everything changed.
The near-death experience had forced him to let go. Not of the love, perhaps, but of the expectation. After all, if she wanted to disappear, who was he to chase a ghost?
Now, in his office, the late afternoon sun spilled through the tall windows behind him, casting golden light across the sleek surface of his desk. Zeke signed off another document, his pen scratching softly against paper.
There was a knock at the door.
Andrew, his ever-composed assistant, stepped in. "Sir, Mr. Blackwell would like a moment of your time."
Zeke looked up, brows lifted faintly. "Thomas?"
"Yes, sir. He’s waiting outside."