“I would have told you that…that you don’t have to do what you’re about to do.” My heart thumps slowly, loudly. Feverish. “If you help me through my Heat, it’ll be at great cost to you. If the Assembly ever found out, it would be a disaster. So I would have told you: thank you, I appreciate the offer, but I cannot ask this of you.” “You don’t—” “Need to ask. Yup, that’s what you would have said. And I would have pushed back a little—told you that I’m willing to deal with this on my own, because I wouldn’t want you to regret it afterward.” “You can’t—” “But you would have seen through it. So I
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