made, one he had hidden because he knew exactly what it would cost him if I knew the truth.
“I was scared,” he said, his voice breaking under the weight of something that had been buried too long. “I knew you. I knew you’d stay if you thought I hadn’t done anything wrong. And if you knew…”
He didn’t finish.
He didn’t have to.
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