“You rejected me,” she spat, and I didn’t miss how tears welled in her eyes again, but she didn’t let them fall. “I told you who I was. I gave you the drawings you asked me to make for you. I… I put everything on the line, and you took one look at me and decided I wasn’t enough.” I was so desperate to hold her I couldn’t fight it anymore. “Mary, I would never—” But she yanked away from me before I could touch her. “You did,” she seethed, but her anger was snuffed out by pain. “You did, Leo. Do you seriously not remember?”
