UNCHARTED PATH
But Alex didn’t wait. He didn’t look back. His hands trembled as he drove off, his jaw clenched tight enough to snap bones.
That night, Nathan called repeatedly. His nonstop text messages were filled with apologies, explanations, and pleas.
Alex ignored every one of them and drove to a quiet bar, rage bubbling under his calm exterior as he drowned himself in whiskey shots.
Hours later, the bartender called him to report that Nathan had shown up on the other side of the same bar, drunk out of his mind, causing a scene, crying and slurring apologies to an invisible Alex.