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She stares at ether most of it”

“You took a deal with Rowan?”

She nods

“Who did you choose to go free?”

She lets go of my hand “I chose you”

I frown “And that would mean that he’d kill you?”

She nods

“Why? Why would you savebut horrible to you? I killed your fiancé and threatened to kill you! Your decision was easy; ould you save me?”

She bites her lip as she considers her next words I think she’s going to say so able to take a father away fro to be the one to kill ht if I was free, I could come back and save her before Rowan killed her, which would have been risky

“You would have never killed me,” she says

I frown, although, ht Maybe I wouldn’t have I don’t know

“I couldn’t choose my life over yours And I know you made the sa yourself”

“Why?” I ask again, begging her to say the words I’ve wanted to hear her say since I was fifteen and first noticed her turning into a wohbor, closest friend, and later ene

She sighs as if she can’t quite say the words she wants to say Instead, she bemoans, “Why couldn’t you have saved me before?”

That is what ultiive ive myself