Chapter 70

Shantelle’s POV

“Why did you start taking it again?” I asked Reginald immediately after I entered the room.

All the warnings the nurse gave me flew out of my head because I didn’t know what else to ask him. It was funny that I wouldn’t have asked him this immediately, but what was the point in trying to sweeten the conversation? He didn’t look like he was offended.

Looking at him, he stared back at me with remorse. He didn’t want Mama to see him this way; that was why he asked me to be here instead of her.

She wouldn’t have been able to hold herself together.

It seemed like they were pumping him full of something; he looked so uncomfortable being in that position. I understood why he wanted me to see this, not her.

“I had to,” Reggie said. “The pressure was getting to me, and I needed something to take the edge off.” He didn’t look at me while finishing that statement. He was ashamed of what he had done and how it had brought him