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Within those walls, she dug up a grave Tess’s The girl had tried to reverse time to save us all--and she’d died froirl’s withered corpse All of Evie’s hopes of bringingTess
I grazed ers over the words on my memorial: I love you She had been crazed as she carved this rock, this gravestone
She was broken: Jack and I had marveled at the snow
The vision faded I clenched my fists and yelled to the sky How the fuck could Matthew let her suffer like that? Filled with rage, I staggered back across that rock, then stued at hi with his led back to his feet
"I should kill you!"
Holding his jaw, he spat blood "I broke her sain "Goddamn it, coo-yôn! Why?" I barely pulled rin The sosie was back
Took everything in ain "Why did you want h at that gravestone, I was desperate to find her and show her I’d lived
Then cahtmaybe she should think I’m dead
Was this the nepoint Matthew had promised? When I’d told him to takeaboutabout
Fifty-fifty, which way I’d go
Fighting for breath, I said, "Can she be happy with Domīnija?"
"Can anyone be happy AF?"
I rubbed randave the Tarasova to her"
So Evie had reunited with her last living relative--what she’d wanted most The two had been delivered from the Ash, tucked away in a place with food and heat and luxuries
Safe at last
No, no, what the hell are you thinking, Jack? A life without Evie wasn’t worth living You really believe you can go on without her? I tried to look at this coldly: she was critical toAF
Not to feel her with my every step? J’tombe en botte I fall to ruin
And no one could love her more than I did--no one She’d knohat she wanted, and she’d chosen me I was her intended husband I would put the choice to her again
Which would ut twisted In that vision, more than her smile had been broken What if ood?
Besides, she hadn’t chosen me only for me She’d chosen the future I’d offered her Now I couldn’t offer her a godda all over again
I had nothing
Nothing
I was right back to where I’d been before the Flash, slowly strangling to death ’cause I wasn’t good enough for her