After uttering those words, Dorothy closed her eyes, her body starting to tremble ever so slightly as if bracing for the agony that was imminent.

But the pain didn't come.

Instead, what arrived was him propping himself up and withdrawing from her.

"I don't want you to compensate me in this way," he said, dropping the words like a stone before turning and walking into the bathroom.

Dorothy remained lying on the bed, her hair splayed out around her like strands of seaweed.

With his weight lifted, the air rushed back into her lungs in greedy gulps, and a bitter smile flickered across her lips.

Was this compensation? Not really.

to feel Everett. Truly

if it meant pain,

of water from the bathroom started up again, a

with the lights, and just sat on the

emerged with a towel wrapped around his waist, she

questions, okay, Everett?" "About

always the one to give in, and he was used to it

with her, and she worried—was it an infection,

possibilities had flitted through Dorothy's mind, but she never imagined he'd

as nails, nothing's going to happen.” "Well, if you don't take

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