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"Don’t you dare use Clara againstto my eyes I couldn’t believe his nerve

He shook his head His thumbs rubbedme what he had was unique and way too special to destroy

Fox pressed his face againstme no choice but to see the soul deep pain inside hihter and how much she cured me I’ll never be able to show the depth ofyou when you needed iveness and be worthy But I need you, Hazel I thought I could walk away and let you go, but I can’t I need you too da heart beat for the first tiive that up

"No ht ain Every hour, I’ll touch you, just to prove I’ you need and deserve You’ll never be free oflife"

I wanted

I desired

I wanted to buckle and let him sweep me away

He’ll kill your unborn baby He ran when Clara died You can’t do this

My entire body vibrated; I couldn’t control ht me, and you fell for Clara, but it was all to fix you It was all about you Fucking you You, you, you

"All your talk of never letting o because you can’t live without me All your promises that you can be worthy It’s all still about you!

"What abouthter, and what has it done for er in his face "I’ll tell you what it’s done for me It’s shown me I’m better off on my own You have no choice in the matter I won’t allow you to touch me or chase e of the little boy swaain I knew in my bones I carried a son His son The son I would raise on my own The son he wouldn’t know about as he was too volatile, too fucked-up to trust

"You’re not safe I’ to put et about me"

I hated every word Half of me believed them, the other half wanted to washwith truth until I didn’t knohat I wanted anyht, mummy I don’t want you to be sad"

I almost folded in two as my heart tore itself into pieces

"Fuck, Hazel" Fox sucked in an unsteady breath, dragging shaky hands through his hair "Please Let ed Let ain Just please--don’t walk away andsurvive it And I’ve survived toolet you!"

My heart wanted to believe hiive and trust hiht had drained me All I wanted to do was crawl into a hole and cryleft I couldn’t fall back into old patterns and keep hoping he was safe I didn’t want to live in fear of touching hinant

I had to think of the fragile life inside

Straightening my back, I said, "You don’t have the choice You losthard, I looked at hi him to memory He looked like he’d been to war and not come back With bronze hair and a body scarred with tales, he’d proven too broken to fix I could’ve spent an entire lifetiured out the cohting Forgive hi er he was terrified, lost, and all alone My heart broke all over again

"Zel Please Tell me how I can fix this"

I couldn’t do this anyy until I swayed in the wind

God, Clara I miss you so much I need you here I need you to repair the mess I’ve made

"Fix it? How can you fix it? Are you a necrohter? Can you heal my broken heart? Can you stop this awful eclipse insidehis teeth His ers twitched to reach for him, to wipe away the lone tear that trickled down his face He looked so broken Throbbing with agony, living with the twin of my pain We were two halves of a shattered circle Microscopic pieces that couldn’t survive without the other And I wouldn’t survive if I gave into him Fate had screwed us over

It was time to end this once and for all

With shaky hands, I pushed asidehair and unclasped the necklace fro together ever since the hospital gave ive Roan my star? I can’t take it withmy tears She wanted Fox to have it I would honour her wish

Pooling the silver into my palm, I held my hand out "Here She wanted you to have this"

Fox’s eyes fell on the necklace and a feral, heart-wrenching noise erupted fro exploded inside hie arht

Life ended

Then began again

Noise ceased

Then caain

Sorrow disappeared