The words are a precision strike right through my heart. It’s so violent that I almost gasp. My mother’s words echo through my mind. You ruined us. You ruined everything. They’re followed by the words of that Unseelie fae from the White Faction when she attacked me in that forest. You ruined him! You ruined everything! Pain crackles through my chest like a vicious lightning bolt. I try to swallow it down, but I can’t breathe. That oppressive wave of dark despair and crippling guilt inside me lurches in from all sides, wrapping around my chest like strangling vines. I try to draw in a breath,
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poor girl
