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Biting her lip, she glanced around the room “Is it true?” she asked

“Is what true?”

“If you have feelings for me, which I really don’t believe, then does it mean that Sarah, was she … reallywhen it ca of a twin or a concept of what it meant to have a family member

Landon put down the empty bowl “Yes”

Tulip nodded It shouldn’t hurt

“Are you okay?”

“I’m fine”

“You don’t look fine”

She laughed “You think you’ve got proble it is bad How about not knohat it’s like at all? In fact, you, your fucked-up uncle and brothers, none of them knohat it’s like to have the mother lode dumped on you Let me tell you, I don’t like it Up until last week, as far as I are, I was just another unwanted baby A nobody I could live with it No one wanted me, not even my parents But now I learn I had a sister A twin Not only was I not wanted, ot the parents, and the boyfriend, and I bet she had a good life, didn’t she? I bet she never knehat it was like to go hungry, or to be afraid because your foster dad’s steps stopped outside of your roo at you no matter how hard you try to hide your tits”

She hadn’t cried in a very, very long time Only, she couldn’t seem to stop these tears

They fell thick, fast, and she gritted her teeth, angry at herself for even caring that no one had given a single fuck about her in all of her life

“I’m sorry,” he said

“No, you’re not sorry If you were sorry, you’d releasechair” She started to wriggle with o Let me out”

She screamed until her voice was hoarse