Your silence threatens to undo me, and for a moment, I consider taking it all back and telling you the real truth—that it was true once but isn’t anymore. That the story I’m working on has taken a turn I never saw coming, one I wish I didn’t have to pursue. That I imagine abandoning the whole bloody business and taking you somewhere very far away. And then I remind myself—as Goldie reminded me last night and then again this morning—that you’ve made your plans and they don’t include me.
see, he feels bad that he has to expose her father but the reason he's being harsh is that he thinks she'll be just fine without him whereas he'll be the only one to suffer heartbreak, that he has a monopoly on it. dickhead. I'm 10000% on her side
