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“No You obviously want to talk about Juliet and what I didn’t do right Hoas I to know? Before I could even come home, you had her cremated and buried, like you’d filed her away in a dusty cabinet I didn’t even get to say good-bye I thought you just wanted to forget her and move on”

Ha the lid closed on this can of worht up “You assuh to ask”

“I didn’t pry,” Lia the plates out of Ha his arms over his chest

He scoffed, his te “You didn’t want to knohy odda an ounce of unhappiness to either one of us?”

“Of course I did” Lia Goddamn it if he didn’t look somewhere between concerned and compassionate “I offered to drop my project at work and come home You said not to bother, so I tried to talk to you over the phone But you were aloof, so I backed off…” He shook his head sadly “I wasn’t disinterested, Macen Jesus, I’m sorry I didn’t realize you felt like this When you kept pushing ht you needed time to process When you moved out here, I assu his head “I worried that I was a reet”

“I wish to fuck I could,” Haed careers, and changed lives Nothing ain until Raine”

“Shit I didn’t start with her to hurt you I know I’m a bit late, but…” Liam sed “Why? Why did Juliet end herself, then? Do you know?”

“Yeah, and you don’t want to”

“I do or I wouldn’t have asked”

The backs of Hammer’s eyes ached His throat closed up “She left me a note She wanted more attention”

Liam rubbed at the back of his neck “Frankly, iven her enough attention She was a bit starved, no matter e did I suppose it didn’t help that work kept me away for the last six weeks or so, but I called her She kneas co back”

“She was tired of being our ‘fuck doll’”

“Juliet said that?” he asked incredulously

“Yeah, and neither of us realized she felt that way”