Holly Sinclair clenched her fists tightly, squeezing her eyes shut and covering her ears.
'I won't listen!'
'My brother is such a good person!'
'Why should this be his fate?!'
'Why did they have to do this to him?'
'He's so young. He was supposed to have a wonderful future...'
'He hadn't even found a wife for me to call sister-in-law...'
'Why?!'
'My poor brother... He never should have ended up like this...'
'It's Tristan Sterling!'
'It's because Tristan Sterling refused to save him!'
Holly felt a pain like a knife twisting in her heart.
She opened her eyes, which were now bloodshot. "Tristan Sterling, I was wrong..."
"Holly..." Tristan Sterling's heart tightened slightly.
Her sudden admission of fault filled him with a strange sense of irritation.
"I was wrong! I was wrong! I never should have fallen in love with you! I shouldn't have!!"
Holly screamed, on the verge of a breakdown, completely consumed by guilt.
She felt she was the one who had harmed her brother.
