Unbidden, Adrian's words had come back to me, that the next time I was in bed with Dimitri, I should think about others who weren't so lucky. "Do you think I ruin lives?" I asked. "What? Of course not." The smile changed to shock. "Where would you get that idea?" I shrugged. "There are just a lot of people whose lives are still kind of a mess. My friends, I mean." "True," he said. "And let me guess. You want to fix everyone's problems." I didn't answer. Dimitri kissed me again. "Roza," he said, "it's normal to want to help the people you love. But you can't fix everything." "It's what I do," I
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