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“Sorry, et so my mistake

She shakes her head “I’ry”

I open my mouth to say the words I’ain, knowing those words will just

“I forgive you, not that there is anything to forgive”

She gasps and blinks rapidly, trying to pull her hand free of mine “You can’t”

“I do That’s why I was so upset, not at you, atyou no matter how much you hurt me”

She steps back

I step into her space,to forgive, was there? You were told to hurt et the next clue”

A tear slips from her eye as she nods “Yes” She takes a deep breath “I’m sorry”

I swipe the tear off her cheek “You have nothing to be sorry for You were given a task, and you did it If the roles were reversed, I would have done the sa”

“But I chose Corbin…I chose the worst thing I could think of to hurt you”

I shake my head “You made the best out of a bad situation Corbin trusts you now He thinks you hatehe asks just to ruin me”

“But I alh so much pain I made you watch while he fucked me”

“No!”her ramble

I pull her into ether “I didn’t let Corbin fuck you I couldn’t Maxwell couldn’t either We fought our way out of there”