Steve heard his mother-in-law calling to him, but did not slow his pace or turn around. He rushed through the halls. “Steve! Don’t make me chase you. I’m too old to run. Stop!”
Instead of waiting for an elevator, he threw the stairwell door open and took the flight down two at a time. Soon, he couldn’t hear Alice anymore.
It was all his fault. Of course, it was. He was a worthless human being not worthy of someone as good and kind as Harmony Harper. If he had left her alone in Oregon years ago, she wouldn’t be lying in a hospital bed after being attacked by his groupies.
He didn’t deserve her.
With long strides, he burst out of the hospital stairwell door and into the Nashville sunshine. Adam had dropped him at the front door and driven off to find a parking space. He had no one and no
