The rest of the conversation with Karyn involved her telling him to come there, and him telling her how much he wanted to, but that it would not be a story with a happy ending, and that, he believed, was the last thing in the world he wanted to inflict on her and David. The call ended with both of them crying.
Hank had always struggled with making a woman cry, a throwback to when his mother would frequently use tears instead of anger to get him to do what she wanted. To make a woman cry, at some level for Hank, meant not being a good boy, or later, a good man.
As he started to do this kind of introspecting, something he rarely ever did in his life up to now, he realized that what he needed to do next was to go back to his room on the cliff, pack, finish off whatever tequila he had left u
