“In my situation, I don’t see much point to hatred anymore.” Jason bumped his head against Gary’s arm again. “You really are the best of us. I’m sorry I couldn’t wrangle better circumstances for you. You deserve better.” “Since when did deserve ever matter? I don’t want to hear any self-recrimination, Jason. You don’t get to take my sacrifice and turn it into your failure. If it weren’t for you, I’d have died in a hole years ago and no one would have known. You gave me these years and they’ve been pretty damn good ones. However this ends up going, always remember that.” Jason wiped the
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