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"You’re right I cannot make this choice for you, but I will not tolerate it, either You can do whatever you like, but you will not be allowed in my house with that abomination," Ezra said coolly

"Abomination?" Her voice cracked "We are the abomination! She is merely a child, and I want to save her!"

"You cannot save her, Mae! You can only turn her into a monster!"

"Like we’re monsters?" Mae brushed a strand of her hair from her eyes and looked down at the floor "Maybe we are, and maybe she would be too, but she would have a life And it wouldn’t be a bad life She could have everything that we have to offer"

"We have nothing to offer her," he said

"How can you say that?" Mae gaped at him, then she looked at me with hate for the first time, and I flinched "Is it because of her? Because of Alice? She gets everything you have to offer? You let Jack turn her and gave hih you had just turned her brother For her

"She is not the only thing in this life that needs you, Ezra! In fact, I don’t think she even needs you! You aren’t that indispensable to her!" Her lips quivered, and she glared at him "You aren’t that indispensable to me either!"

"If I’m some kind of burden, I can leave I don’t want to cause any probleured out what their fight was about yet, but I certainly didn’t want to be the source of it

"You’re not a burden," Ezra said, looking apologetically at o up to your room"

"What if she moves out?" Mae latched onto an idea, and her entire deed She took a few quick steps closer to Ezra, deftly lass on the floor "She and Jack could move out He can take care of her, and Milo is already self-sufficient Peter is gone most of the time anyway We have the room, and we have the time"

"Alice and Milo are not ready to be on their own like that," Ezra said "And it isn’t about the that isn’t the problem Even if everyone moved out, and it was just the two of us, I would still say no This cannot be done, Mae, no matter what anybody else does or doesn’t do"

"There has to be soround at his feet She was literally begging him, and when she took his hand, he didn’t pull away, but he wouldn’t look directly at her "Ezra! Please! I have never asked you for anything like this before!"

"You’ve asked ed you too o of his hand and sat back on her heels Closing her eyes, she rubbed at her forehead, and I knew she was trying to think of so