Things were over between him and Kathy, and he was finally okay with that. They had given it their best shot, but too many things had changed – they had changed. And now that he had let go of that part of his life, Elliot was finally ready to move ahead, to take what had been staring him in the face all these years.

But as he stood across the street from Liv's apartment, his heart sank into his stomach. She stood on the top step, her lips mere centimeters from Ed Green's as she gave him a glowing smile.

He was too late.