GIVING HIM A SECOND CHANCE
His mutters were slurred, they were incoherent at first, but then one word surfaced, repeating over and over again, it tore at her chest: “Sasha was the name being repeated.”
Ella’s body went rigid. She pulled the blanket up to her chin, her breaths shallow, her eyes burning with tears and despair. She stared into the dark until the ceiling blurred, her tears finally slipping free. She wept quietly, so softly that the crackle of the fire might hide it.
Cole stumbled to bed much later, beside her he collapsed heavily, his breath reeked of liquor. Within moments, he was fast asleep, a hand flung across the sheets, his chest rising and falling in uneven rhythm.
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