“Where was she? She would never venture into the darkness, fearing it like a haunting memory, for the scars it might leave behind could shatter him with unbearable agony.”
Fuck! f**k! f**k!
Ryan slammed his hand against the steering wheel, his jaw clenched as he sped down the road, the city lights blurring around him. What in the world had he done?
He had kissed her. He had kissed Estelle.
The thought raced through his mind like a storm, each wave more torturous than the last. His hand gripped the wheel tightly, his knuckles white with tension. This wasn’t supposed to happen. This wasn't why he was there. And more importantly, Estelle was off-limits, untouchable in so many ways he could list, but now? Now he had crossed that line, and he didn’t know how to fix it.
It wasn’t that the k
