at the Harrison family estate, the grand old house where Chloe grew up. Sunlight str

ack in. Noah. Mia. Th

me ones from yesterday. I was st

s a man of immense presence, but today he looked small and broken. His face

id, his voice thick.

uestion. I did

gely calm, as if all my emotions had been bu

. My voice was flat,

d Mark excha

"Ethan, you don't have to go

ry kind to me. I'm grateful for that." I paused, the words coming out slow and deliberat

s weathered cheeks. He had taken me in when I was a teenager with nothing, seeing something in me he said was missing in

I knew she was reckless. I never should hav

of profound shame and sorrow

uietly, his hand on his father

mily, his family, had given me everything and, in the end