Chapter 48

Julie instinctively reached out to grab the photo but failed. It drifted to the ground. She bent down to pick it up, but Zayn raised his foot and ruthlessly stomped on it. "So, this is what you care about? Who's in the photo?" It was clear he hadn't seen the person in the photo. Julie swallowed hard and forced her voice to remain calm. "No one. If you want the wallet, you can have it. Just open the door. I want to leave." Zayn chuckled. "I know you too well, Jules." The more she cared about something, the calmer she was. He bent down to pick up the photo from beneath his foot. Then, he glanced at the writing on the back of the photo and softly read, "From Jules to my dearest Luce. It's the 103rd day of me wanting to marry you." The sentence ended with a little doodle of a heart shape. Zayn flipped the photo to reveal a young man standing under a maple tree, smiling brightly at the camera. If his memory served him right, that was the maple tree at their school. "Who's this?" he d