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She aze to his "You will help him" She'd meant to frame the words as a question, but somehow they ended up as a statement

"He doesn't need medical care"

"You will help him," she repeated herself, softly

He surged to his feet and backed away froh of the hero worship, Selena I'm not capable of he

lping people Besides, what Andrew needs isn't possible We can't change the past"

"Then change the future"

"Ah, Selena" Ian's whole body see at her sierous time for him After a short period of cat-

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atonia, he usually tries to kill hiood at it Last year-"

She gasped

Ian glanced down at her She could see that he had no idea how callous he had just sounded, how ugly his detachment was

The insensitivity hurt her ile, uncertain, as if she'd just discovered that the anchor in her world rought of spun glass She touched his arers around his wrist, tried to find the fa beside hi or solid about hihost

She gazed up at hi her eyes held the heartbreak in her soul "He needs you"

He sighed heavily and shook his head "Ah, Selena "

"You will do what is right, Ian I know you will"