Hannah was beginning to relax, even though she was still counting down the minutes until the session was over. Talking about things made them impossible to deny, which was why she suspected her psychiatrist wanted her here in the first place.
She listened to all the women this time, but once again Red caught her attention. Complicated - she could understand that better than anyone.
When it came time for her turn, she hesitated. On the one hand she could talk about Liam as a separate person entirely. He was a jerk, I didn't really know him, end of story. On the other, she could be a little more truthful.
"I cared about him a lot. It's complicated and doesn't even make sense to me, but we knew each other for a long time. I didn't realize it then, but I do now. He... He always listened, you know? When no one else would, he did. He did everything he could to help me and fix my problems, and even though he couldn't, he still tried. I never realized that he... might have had problems of his own too." She kept her gaze on the far wall, carefully not looking at anyone. "He never told me. I had to find out the hard way, and now it's too late to help him. It's partly my fault, because I could have done something if I'd just looked a little closer." Unconsciously she brought a hand to her shoulder, rubbing at the bandage under her shirt. "But he never meant to hurt me. I know that much."