Anna slowly looked up at him. Her bluish green eyes were stained red from the tears. Normally she hated people watching her cry, but she wanted him to see the tears. She wanted him to feel the horrid shame wash over him. She wanted him to know what he’d caused before they made amends.

And it worked.

Jack could feel hisself being ripped & lashed apart inside. Seeing her this way would have been enough, but to know he was the reason for it? It was too much. She looked too helpless, too hurt, too sorry. Truth be told she looked like her heart had just been stabbed with a knife. And in a way it had been. Her little boy, her only child was frightened because of her and the man she loved, and to her that was a stab in the heart.

Jack finally caught his breath & daringly took a step torwards Anna.
“Jack…” she choked out & the tears fell harder. The look she’d gave him would have been enough, but hearing her hurting voice killed him, & it made Jack feel impossibly worse.