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No! "If you walk out of this room, I won’t take you back I’ll be done Like you, I’m tired I’m tired of the back and forth"

"Good," he said with a clipped nod

The rain redoubled The thunder grew louder, the snowe mistake you made, that we could have made this work"

"I won’t"

Like Hades before him, he refused to back down in his quest to destroy her, unsatisfied until every tie with her had been severed "Torin Please"

He reached back and gripped the collar of his shirt, pulling thea chest covered in brimstone scars

She would have rather been punched She stue of the bed Down she sank, bouncing on the mattress It was a betrayal of her trust in hin that he’d turned his back on everything they’d built

In a snap, the bond withered to ash, leaving her wounded, hollow The pain, oh, the pain More than she’d ever been forced to bear

Without his strength, the weather worsened tenfold

"How could you do this?" she whispered

"What’s sad is that there’s a better question to ask Why didn’t I do it sooner?"

Tears strealed to for her heart to bits "Do us both a favor and finally put " He opened up the door and left her--and soon, the fortress

TORIN SAT IN the back of a darkened club that catered to ihth ambrosia-laced whiskey He was in a terrible oodbye to his friendshowever long ago that was A week? Four?

An eternity?

Soh his ure this out You think it was easy for me to pair up with a wo the demon of Defeat makes me suffer for days? No But I didn’t puss up about it and leave her She orth fighting for Isn’t yours?

Sabin: You need to be kneed in the nuts