“I envied your naïveté, how you credited me with goodness and failed to realise that it was a setup from the very beginning. When you begged for a chance to heal me, I gave in. When you touched me, I didn’t push you away. I thought, Where’s the harm? It all ends soon enough, and life has been cold for such a long time.” She didn’t realise she’d started crying until his thumb brushed across her cheek. “By the time I realised I’d miscalculated, you’d already forced your way in.
