“You are. You are, though, because I was in love with you, Charlotte Thompson!” The words exploded from Sutton, from somewhere so deep inside of her, somewhere that had been bottled up and pushed down long ago. “I was so, so in love with you, and I was fine with you not coming out. I was fine with us not labelling what we were to one another. I was completely fine with that, and you still ended it.” That was Sutton’s painful truth. That she would have continued to live, for an indeterminate amount of time, by Charlotte’s career. And even then, it hadn’t been enough. The hard, shattering truth
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