I chewed the inside of my cheek, trying to accept his words, but at the core of me, I’d believed this long before the war had started. “The truth is…I used to think that things would have been better if I hadn’t been around. If Lionel hadn’t had me to hold over you, you wouldn’t have had to go through what you did. You could have made your own choices. Maybe you never would have been Star Crossed-”
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