CHAPTER 99
SANDRA’S POV
The drive to the office was slow, filled with a suffocating silence that seemed to press in from all sides.
I sat still in the passenger seat, my eyes fixed on the passing skyline of the morning city. Trees whizzed past me, we sped past large buildings, and I caught a billboard with my company's ad running on it–but my mind remained in everything that'd happened in that bedroom.
I recalled the way Alex had looked the moment I brought him in–skin pale, dark circles under his eyes resembling bruises, words pouring out in slurs and a breath that stank of distillery.
I shifted my gaze down to his hands, watching as they trembled with a slight tremor as they gripped the steering wheel.
He looked… pathetic.
And it was all because of her.
Because of Mara.
My
