Dorothy lingered in silence so long that she feared the voice that would eventually break it wouldn't even sound like her own.

"Then... don't come back." Everett remained silent.

"Everett, go back to where you belong,” she added.

He clenched his fists so tightly that the veins on the back of his hands stood out like angry rivers.

"How do you do it? How can you say something so heartless without batting an eyelash? Huh?" His voice was hoarse, dripping with despair.

Dorothy had a knack for smashing his slowly gathered courage, his glimmers of hope, into oblivion, leaving nothing behind! And just moments ago, everything was fine. They were holding hands in the cab back from the airport! "Because I'm just a rock, I don't have warmth," Dorothy replied, her gaze piercing through him as she enunciated every word.

by now. I'm incapable of love; I only stick to my convictions." "I never asked you to change!" He had been trying his whole life to reshape himself! He was chiseling away,

knew. The photos he showed me, you've seen them, haven't you?" Everett's lips pressed into a thin line. "Yes." "Then, that day after you saw them, I noticed something off about you." Dorothy's smile was a

be together at last, and he could proudly claim Dorothy as his

won't drop the charges," said

why he hadn't voiced

involved in this mess. But

spoken a I e word in his mother's defense. Please read the

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