“Besides, I’m surprised you’d even entertain the idea of kissing her after how The Nation raised you.” Beth’s words sound around me in waves of vague memories. It feels like a dream, like something cryptic and haunting all at the same time. It pierces through my mind in sharp stabs of agonizing pain and at the same time, wraps around my shoulders in bolts of nostalgia. “What did you just say?” I ask quietly as I slowly turn my gaze towards Bethie. My skin is icing over in rage while my heart loses control in its rhythm and practically breaks through my chest in order to escape. No one mentions
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Cut her throat
