Chapter 61

• GWEN POV
• I didn’t hear from him or April for a few days, and I thought that perhaps he’d finally gotten the message. When he’d left the night I’d let him touch me, he looked so defeated that I felt sure he had given up. I told myself that it was a good thing. But deep down, my heart ached. His giving up was not what I really wanted. What I really wanted was the sweet, kind, gentle man he was showing himself to be. And yet, I still couldn't fully trust him to control his darker side.
• A few days later, I learned that April had been picked up by the cops high on drugs and alcohol. I remembered Nolan was so concerned that he wasn’t a good father. I could only imagine this made it worse.