You can’t make anyone love you or care about you. I knew that better than anyone. The hairs on my arms stood up, my back prickled, and I just went… numb as I stood there, looking down at the man I had cared for, for years. The one who had started to make me feel that I wasn’t a nuisance, that it was okay to ask him for things. That had made me feel safe. Understood. And I realized the burn in me was actually a freezer burn. Leave me alone, Lucas Ripley had just said to me. I didn’t have much pride, but I had enough. Maybe Rip couldn’t put things together enough, but I had left the people who
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