“I’ll be quick, but you need to hear this.” I swallow past the baseball-sized knot in my throat, my fingers gripping the wall tighter. “You need to know that I don’t care if your loyalty to Kason wins out, and all I’m doing here is making a fool of myself. It doesn’t matter, and I don’t care if you don’t feel the same way, because I can’t go another day keeping this shit to myself. Especially now that he knows.” There’s pain and sorrow etched into his features that might as well run my heart through a blender as he goes to speak. “Hold—” “I’m sorry,” I cut in, knowing my time is limited. “I
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