Chapter Nineteen
Marcus sat in his car in his driveway, trying to make sense of everything that had happened, from groveling to Karen and visiting Reine to meeting with the lawyer who was the face of the Hirst family.
He knew his family was inside. He’d seen Jenny and Alison walk into his house, and Owen and Tessa, and even Luke and Chloe, but he’d ignored all of them. Even when Charlotte had stepped out of the house and gestured to him, he’d just looked away. He thought it was Owen who had said something to her, encouraging her to go back inside.
He didn’t have a clue how to find the words to tell a little girl why her mother, whom she’d seen just the day before, couldn’t visit her right now. He leaned back against the headrest and shut his eyes.
There was a sharp tap on his window, a
