“So tell me now.” Angel had a bad feeling. Hunter had never kept secrets from her and she wondered if being gone all this time had caused it. “What don’t I know?”
“Our mother died last month when the house accidentally caught fire,” he swallowed still not wanting to talk about it. “The fire department said it looked like she had been cooking and must have fallen asleep.”
Angel's lips parted when his dark eyes became luminous with unshed tears. “Oh my god Hunter… I’m so sorry. I wish you had told me… I would have come back sooner.”
“I didn’t want you to… see me like that,” he confessed as she wrapped her arms around him for the third time in the last half hour.
Letting go of the door, he let it slide shut as he reached out and touched the stop button. Placing his palms against her back,
