The words should have hurt way more than they did, but there was so much pain inside her that this particular rejection wasn’t registering the way she’d expected it to. Maybe there was only so much pain a heart could process at once, and now she was too numb to fight for her friend. Or maybe, there was nothing left to fight for, nothing she could give Eddie that would make Eddie feel safe and seen. “So yuh girlfriend, she’s Assata?” All Bitter could remember was Eddie describing her as a baking and gardening type. “Malachite? Yeah, she used to be. Like Alex. Tapped out a couple of months ago,
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