"Yeah."

"Is it my mother's death that's made you start hating me?" Dorothy could only think of that as an explanation.

He hated himself.

Otherwise, why would he be so heartless?

"...Don't bring that up.

Dorothy pursed her lips. At this point, she didn't want to argue with Everett. It was too exhausting, and because there had been love.

The only real relationship she had, she didn't want it to end in embarrassment for both of them.

"Everett, I'm begging you, okay?"

Dorothy turned away, refusing to look at him.

Because she didn't want to cry in front of Everett.

She didn't want anyone to see her at her weakest.

take the kids and leave. I promise I won't contact

"Dorothy..."

our mothers! Indeed,

things lightly. She had been

and Everett just

she had been someone of note, someone whose background matched that of the Lopez family, then... there wouldn't have been any issue with Heather, would

the root of it, it was because she wasn't good

this early on, it felt like a cruel joke

let her live a

the dream, not clinging to it was the only way to

you take

couldn't maintain its

he still trembled slightly,

was afraid, terrified

once Dorothy left, he'd

if she

taken him over a decade of effort to

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