Chapter 52

Tristan's POV

I could feel Athena's eyes on me while I ate, studying me like she was trying to solve some complicated puzzle. It made me shift uncomfortably in my chair because I had a pretty good idea what was going through her mind.

She was probably thinking about how to fix me. How to make the pain go away and help me "heal" from losing Jess and our unborn child.

But what she didn't understand—what nobody seemed to understand—was that this kind of pain doesn't just disappear. It doesn't fade with time or get better with therapy or magically vanish because people care about you.

It stays...