“I never got to thank you,” she whispers. “For that night. That’s how it started, the stalking. I just wanted to thank you for saving me, and I tried a few times. You were just…” She struggles to find the words, chewing the inside of her cheek to help gather them. “This intangible person. Alluring and so overwhelming. You are so beautiful that people were terrified yet refused to look away. Every time I thought, ‘This is the moment to say something,’ nothing ever came out. I was this little orphan girl that no one ever noticed, and you were infamous. I never meant for it to turn into what it
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