Chapter 17 Ineradicable

It had been common knowledge that Emlyn Young had loved Hunter Shield even though he had been oblivious to that fact. Everybody had made use of her profound love for him to coerce her into forgoing all that she had relied on. When she had eventually married him, he had failed to be the solace she had so desperately sought... Emlyn had initially had a home, a sanctuary, but he had been her biggest deterrent. She had had no support... Emlyn had written in her letters to her mother that she had no support and that even if she had died by the roadside, people would neither gather her remains nor express sorrow over her passing. She had nobody to rely on and thus she had yearned for her mother's company. Hunter's heart clenched and his blood vessels likewise seemed to be constricting, inhibiting his airway. He regretted leaving for America back then. She had been his wife and he had been entrusted with the duty of accompanying her. If he had been by her side, the subsequent complicati