Her face crumples in pain and she cries, “Vanessa!” I brush away the tears that start trickling down her face with the back of my fingers. “Yeah, she found the exact right trigger to pull for me to blow it all up. Here I was finally taking a chance, finally trusting and she fed into my worst fears. I was furious that you were the Butterfly. It all felt like another betrayal and then she added all the other shit to it. You were a con. You were all lies. That’s all it took to steal my courage and believe the worst of you. And by the time we learned that she was the one conning us and lying…you
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