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"Hope you don’t mind that you still have to work for it, mi precioso, because we fucked up your wall"

At that Josiah jerked his head back, and realized that they’d both leaned against the wall, the wet painthe wanted, and he had the ability to

CHAPTER SEVENTEEN

Tristan

"It "

Fire ripped through Tristan’s internal organs at Elliot’s words, incinerating hi into his palhtly "If that’s the only word you can come up with, we have a serious probles to Elliot? Had he really given this person who, in the grand sche to him, such an important piece of who he was?

"She sold her body to put food in my mouth I hid in a closet and listened, even when she cried," the words tumbled out of Tristan’s mouth before he could stop them And still, he’d later sold himself as well If his ize"

Tristan stopped walking and looked out at the never-ending sea

Elliot did the same "You can’t hold yourself responsible for that It’s not your fault It’s time to realize that"

One, two, three, four, five "Do not tellyou how to feel, I’ you the truth You know it Josiah would tell you the sa their nae Tristan turned on Elliot, grabbed him by the collar and jerked him close "Don’t use theain, we’re done You don’t knohat it was like to hear her You don’t understand what it was like to knohat she did, and to wipe her tears You didn’t see your s because it was the only way to cope with having to whore herself out to raise her weak son You don’t knohat it’s like to look at the people you love every fucking day and worry that you’re going to let theh, and that the more you love them, the more you will fail thehtly