Guarding Her Peace

Chapter 118: Protecting Her From The Truth

ELEANOR POV

Tristan nodded. Once, quickly. "Yes.. I'm sorry. For all of it. Please—if you could just—" He stopped. Understood that he wasn't going to get the sentence finished in a way that helped. "I'm sorry."

He left.

He walked away down the produce aisle with the gait of a man who was holding himself together through will, turned at the end, and was go