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“You made me feel like the parts of me that aren’t useful still deserve to exist. Like I’m not just all the things I can do.”
Women were always defined by the lowliest thing they could be called.
“You don’t get to lie to me and then get angry when I make the mistake of believing you,”
He had been waiting for her betrayal. This was what held him back.
“You are not replaceable,” he said, his hands trembling against her shoulders. “You are not required to make your death convenient. You are allowed to be important to people. The reason I’m here—the reason I’m doing any of this—is to keep you alive. To keep you safe. That was the deal.” He searched her face. “They didn’t tell you.”
He was fire, and she was already consumed.
The past and present shattering against each other as she knelt in their ruins.
“Every time you asked, I promised I was yours. Always. There aren’t any exemptions or expiration dates on always.”
