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"How did she hold it over your head?" Colt asked softly

Tears slipped downon the surface came back to me in full vivid relief, "She had evidence of e and she threatened to send it to h and I turned evidence on her I gave enough evidence to put us both in jail for a very long tih prosecution, but……"

"But the wo to beat it there to explain yourself personally to your adoptivesoftly

I nodded e clouds and on an emotional outcry I said, "They're up there and I'm down here! They think I'm dead and all they have to remember me by is a box full of trash that I wish to God had never happened! I've broken their hearts andarms folded around me and I relaxed into their security and unloaded allas he held rateful beyond words for the co there

"I' back a little I looked up and asked, "You're sorry?"

He nodded, "I wish you'd gotten there to intercept the package"

I cocked otten there I wouldn't be here with you now You'd be okay with that?"

He shrugged, "Disappointment has been the story of my life A missed life with you, while bad, wouldn't have been the worst that I've suffered through If you weren't here at least you wouldn't be suffering like you are in helpless anguish over what has transpired above"

I blinked and then blinked again He cared that aze fell back to his chest, "When I turned the evidence over I'd reached a point in my life A desperate point I called out to God and I did what I knew to do frooing down Up until that point it wasmy life in ways that I didn't like Ways that I've done nothing but resist I've known ever since the plane that it was going to be you and e and yet I a I do like some aspects of you as a man and I do desire you, which is a o ahead I won't resist you"