“Why do you stay?” Parker whispers into the darkness, and I lower myself to sit on the log beside him. “I’ve racked my brain a thousand times, trying to understand it, trying to see through your eyes, and I can’t. If anything, I imagine things are even darker from where you stand. I know you walk around, pretending everything is fine, acting like you’re happy, and for a long time, I believed it, believed you wanted him instead of me. I thought marrying him is what you wanted, but I … I see the defeat in your eyes, Kenra. I feel it every time I look at you.” He shifts toward me, but I can’t
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