Chapter 97

• Behind the drunkenness, and behind the fury, Lena felt pierced by the raw pain in his pale gray eyes. So pierced, and so frightened, that Lena couldn't halt the flood of guilty tears that immediately began to fall.
• She could see how heartbroken he was, behind the drink and the anger. He had lost another family member today, a nephew, who could have lived a life of greatness and possibility, just like his own son. It was only natural that the stillbirth would affect him almost as strongly as Ilise's termination of her pregnancy.
• And instead of choosing to comfort him, Lena had chosen to run away.