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Reaching over I put my hand on her head, “I can’t tell if you hit your head too hard or if you’re just inherently mental?”

“You offeredat me “But did you really have it? Yes, you do—”

“Soet it? “Donatella, if it wasn’t for you, I would have died today The only person who had power today was you And I…I, other than hand, eak—”

“Borrowed power,” she yelled back and glared atyou’re alive thanks to the rule of some else! It ht? Welcome the last twenty-six years of my damn life Today, I didn’t save you My brother did These are his ht Ethan got all of this through birth and froer You are the sa to kill you are terrified of you, that’s why they did this Even with you an ocean aith barely anyone around you, they cannot sleep at night, feeling you breathe down their necks I don’t see weakness I would have left you out there and thrown this ring back at you if I saeakness I see what your eneon I’m the only woman who can make sure everyone knows you’re awake”

She didn’t knoho I was fighting

She didn’t knoas I was facing, yet she said exactly what I needed to hear…and still ed to make herself the ift, one-part vanity, one-part sapience

“Aren’t you worried you’ll only be borrowing power from me then?” I asked

“No,” she replied reaching into her hair to take out a few leaves, tiny pieces of glass coer, you sold half of everything you have to me”

“Just like you did when you accepted?”

She sighed, frowning at me “Must I say it?”

“You erly

“You’re alive, in the car with ?”

“You just can’t say the words, can you?”

“Aren’t you in a e the subject, but I was having too much fun to turn back now

“Nope” I shook my head “My fiancée made me feel much better”