Chapter 163 Getting Messier

• "I am sorry, Zane. We will put up a fight, but this scandal changes everything. I will be honest with you and put our chances at less than forty percent." Matt adds salt to my open wounds and it festers. My mouth goes dry. This is bad. The silence stretches. All my anger at Hilary and the world, everything seeps out of me in a cold sweat. Matt's matter of fact voice rings in my head over and over again, I might lose Luna. She is my sun. My life. My princess. I can't lose her. My God. All these would have been for nothing.
• I open my mouth to talk but a sharp knock at the door steals my attention. I curse low on my breath, it better not be a reporter at that door. Alex gets up, she pulls the cover off her face. She doesn't look like she had slept much. My heart wrenches at the terrified look in her eyes. This is what I have done to her. My God. I don't think I will ever be able to sleep with the guilt.
• "I will get back to you, Matt. But please, do work on that lawsuit against Hillary and her channel. I need it as soon as possible." I end the call before he can say anything, not that he was even going to.