Before She's Gone

A blond, blue-eyed man waved Rowan's phone teasingly and joked in a crisp London accent, "Rowan, your phone's ringing, it's from your home country. Could it be your sweetheart missing you already?"

Rowan took the phone, saw it was Greta calling, and explained to him, "It's just our housekeeper."

The dashing foreigner before him was Callum Roth, scion of the prestigious Roth family in Oakhaven. The