her sister's apartme
g only when exhaustion finally caught up with her. She parked near a small ov
replayed i
but the look o
tried to f
t made p
mply stay
her more than a
ead against the whee
she had loved more, given more, endured more. That she had been a
that wa
as learning, was
hone
om an unfami
ara. Etha
mach ti
something in her-curiosity, perhaps, or the lingering o
t the hospital las
the screen, th
hope he's d
ly came
t actually why I
ngers
xt message read. And maybe it's not my place. But after
ad settled
at? she
as a lo
h
rted drifting apart... it wa
eath c
why w
her
r thi
ought he was
fusion flickerin
ng me fr
nts, as if Mara herself w
bility. From repeatin
ightened o
t unde
message w
k on extra work, extra responsibility, pressure he never shared. He convinced himself tha
st felt
n't he
ly came
if you worried, you'd suffer. He believed love
n her seat, stari
played themselves
ong h
istra
ll she had taken
g didn't era
complic
ded. I just didn't want you to carry the belief tha
urred he
believing she
she had been un
n changed somet
to undo h
ten the sharpest
his apartment, unaware that the past
destroy everything... might be the thi
e phone do
et car, "Why didn't you
n lingered-
, she knew she was rea
lan to see h
a way of dem
in and again, she turned the key in the ignition and drove - not toward
e looked
ost hurt
front door. Her heart beat steadily, not wi
ed, she expect
oor opened alm
hing across his face - then some
okay?"
once. "Ca
aside witho
reathe. Sunlight filtered through the curtains, illuminating dust motes in
poke
ster mes
stiffened sl
es
n't in
father. About the debt.
eyes briefly, as
to find out like tha
u tell me at a
tion was
what unse
ted. "I thought if I handled everything al
dded s
hat work?"
haled
tly. "You didn't protect
led between th
if it was messy. Even if it scared me.
ugh. "I never st
love that hides doesn't feel like
llowed
aid that if you saw how overwhelm
him for a
tly, "that if I kept asking to b
owed - heavy
ving," she said at
d. "I un
hat we never learned how to b
as the
negl
dist
ed ope
don't expect forgiveness. I just... want to do t
tood
t," she said. "But if it exists, it will be
at," he said
et hi
cy," she r
ed. "Ev
o the door,
thing,"
es
she said quietly, "don't protec
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had finally been

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