Fear of Losing You

Valerie's POV

The lingering, suffocating emptiness of the massive house Gideon had just left weighed heavily on my shoulders. I stood silently in the center of the vast living area, listening to the hollow quiet that had settled over the rooms. I reflected bitterly as I gathered my things that our marriage had officially ended. It was undone by our irreconcilable differences and, most painfully,