“I didn’t want to admit that I had been so stupid as to get myself into that situation. That I gave in to him for so long. That I was blind to the fact that they were together. I wanted to pretend that it happened to someone else.” She looked up into Gabriel’s face, which was remarkably sympathetic. “Please don’t say that you are stupid ever again. Shame on them both for how they treated you. They’re the villains in this story, not you.”
