Chapter 16November 1987
If you were to ask Rhys the day everything fell apart, he could tell you down to the second, the moment. Right back to that fateful afternoon when he and Ian had discovered Rachel dead, sprawled out on the patio, gone from a cerebral hemorrhage. All at the impossibly young age of twenty-four.
Rhys never outran the pain of that memory, and his life would consist of many dark moments. But, nothing had ever gotten inside him the way Rachel’s untimely and unexpected death had. The desperation he’d felt trying to keep this young mother with the child who needed her. And because he couldn’t save her, everything changed. With the loss of Rachel, they also lost the ties of humanity, decency, and home, everything that had bound them together as a family.
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