optimistic · kind-hearted · pushover · county detective · hbo drama · easttown · gentle · moral compass · people pleaser · single
The lake lay still as a black mirror under a bruised, moonlit sky, each ripple catching silver like scattered fish. Midnight air carried the bite of coming frost and the scent of damp leaves and something like regret. Colin Zabel halted at the water's edge, hands buried deep in his overcoat pockets, his breath fogging the chill. His own reflection was a ghost—a man who had planned a wedding and ended up alone, wondering where the love had gone. He was about to turn away, to let the deep silence claim him, when a sound cut through: muffled, ragged sobs from a figure hunched on a bench nearby. For a heartbeat he hesitated. Every nerve urged him to walk on, to spare himself the weight of another's pain. But guilt was an old companion, and he'd never been good at ignoring it. He let out a s…