Chapter 16
Samuel washed his face with water in his hotel room bathroom, unbuttoning the top shirt of his tuxedo and losing the jacket. He needed to breathe.
Leaving Caro and Luke’s reception had been the right thing to do. Pilar had every right to be happy.
He went into his empty room and flipped the TV on for white noise.
Somehow, he needed to block the memory of Pilar’s tears.
He slumped on his bed and closed his eyes—another image crashed into his mind where he held Pilar’s hand while she screamed in a hospital bed.
A nurse rushed past him and a doctor told Pilar to push. She’d gripped his hand and screamed but he saw the dark hair of his son as he was born.
He’d taken her pain and told her to breathe.
A ringing in the room caused him to sit up and shake off the memory or visio
