"My emotions are a tangled mess, leaving me lost in a storm of confusion."
Hunter caught himself before his legs gave out beneath him, a surge of emotion—shock, regret, and something far stronger—washed over him as he stumbled back, further away from the hospital door he had been peering into. When he left Carla and Mara earlier to see Estelle, he hadn’t expected to witness something so raw, so intense, that it felt like his heart was being pierced with an ice-cold stake. Never had he seen Estelle so utterly broken.
Christ, what had he done?
Estelle’s breakdown was like a dam bursting inside him, unleashing a flood of emotions he couldn’t comprehend, let alone control.
He did this.
He broke her.
His actions, his lies, had broken her beyond repair.
He dashed out of the hospital, de
