No Excuses

He tried to stop his fingers from trembling, tried to stop himself from tapping away on his legs, tried to hide the flames that spread from his mind and poisoned every part of him, but it was impossible to.

His children had been asking of him for years, missed him for years, even after they had returned to Greenville. Yet she kept him away from them.

How dare she? What could have possibly given her the audacity to do that to him?! After everything…everything?

The more Chase thought about it, the less sense it made. And the less sense it made, the more his heart broke.

He was stunned and irritated by her audacity. To think that she had somehow believed she could hide his children away from him forever, in his own city. Why? How did they get here?

She cut of communication with everyone in Greenville after leaving for North Dakota, which he completely understood. But after she was back, they would have never met - she would have never come look for him - if he had not found her and l