“Liz, please.” Hugh pinched the bridge of his nose and released a pained groan. “I can’t just abandon him. He didn’t do anything wrong. Gibsie is as innocent in all of this as you are.” I wasn’t surprised by his response. Just deflated. And a little more dead inside. Because Hugh would never choose between us, which meant that he chose him. Just like Claire and Patrick had chosen him, too. I was the disposable person in our friendship group. They would never leave him behind because to the Biggs family, Gerard Gibson was indispensable. He was more their family than I ever would be, and it
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