Chapter 21

Robin and Kane stood frozen, staring at the tightly shut door, completely at a loss. "Dad, I already apologized. Why won't she forgive me? Was that contract really that important? "Did she really have no feelings for us after all these years? How could she let us go so easily? "Even when I said I hated her, deep down I still loved her. I really do know I was wrong." His sobs grew louder. Big, heavy tears splattered onto the ground, falling faster than he could wipe them away. This time, he was crying for real. He simply couldn't understand it. Why could Elena be so kind to a little girl she'd only just met, yet treat them like they meant absolutely nothing? Robin's fists clenched so tightly at his sides that blood beaded between his fingers and dripped slowly to the ground. "Maybe… we really did break her heart beyond repair." Only now did every illusion he'd told himself finally collapse. She'd been hurt over and over again. She'd been distrusted more times than he could coun