“I’ll take care of that. I’ll make sure he can sneak out of here before anyone finds out what’s going on, but I need to get you the hell out of dodge first, okay? I’ll take care of everything else. I just need you to go before you get sucked into a lifetime of misery.” She pauses. “Be selfish for once, Darby. Please.” She doesn’t realize how deep those words cut, because I’ve been selfish before. That selfishness included me running away exactly as I am now. That selfishness destroyed me in ways I still haven’t been able to overcome. I’ve always been selfish.
