PRESENT DAY
Tristan
I swallowed thickly at the reminder. Facing her now, that memory felt like nothing.
I still had no idea what she knew or remembered from that night, or the version of events Alistair had told her. Yet as she came to me in my office the next day, guilt swelled in me. I'd pushed her away as I'd promised myself, leaving no room for contact. There was a reason she'd left in the first place after all, and with me on the backseat of her mind alongside the trouble she went through she'd be happier off.
The moment the door slammed in my office that day, I repeated those thoughts as if to convince myself but the regret had already set in.
Her striking doe eyes pierced mine. I had been silent for a while now.
Swallowing thickly, my mind raced. But else was there to say b
