“You didn’t let anything happen to you,” I whispered, and even though the volume was lost to my agonized fury, the words were filled with conviction. “I don’t care if you flirted with him. If he made you feel special and seen and you fell in love with him. I don’t care if you agreed to meet him in secret when you shouldn’t have. None of that matters to me or anyone that would ever hear about the absolute tragedy of what happened to you, Cleopatra. Goodness, love, and kindness are never meant to be rewarded with violence and hatred. Sometimes the worst kind of people are attracted to the best
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