Chapter 9
Marcus was still angry.
But it wasn’t at Angie. He was angry with himself. He was angry about how he’d treated her, how he’d completely ignored that she’d been in a car wreck, angry at how he had been acting.
I’m going to lose her. I can feel it. She’s slipping away, right through my fingers. What will I do once she’s gone?
He knew there was no way he could go back to the way he was before he’d met her. He hadn’t been happy then. He’d just been going through the motions. Now that he’d seen what happiness was like, what it was like to truly love someone again, he didn’t think he could go on without her.
I love her.
He knew that now. He’d known it for some time.
And I’m going to ruin us. Ruin her.
Darkness had fallen. He’d been home for a few hours – yet Angie wa
