“I didn’t realize you felt that way. That you’d felt the need to hide things from me.” “Because I made sure you didn’t know,” Evie said, swiping angrily at the tears running down her cheeks in an endless flow. “I made sure that I was always pleasant because I couldn’t bear to add to your burdens or to Papa’s. Do you know how silly that makes me feel now? How awful it is to sacrifice integral pieces of myself for others and they don’t even care enough to notice?”
