"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.

me take the kids and leave. I promise I won't contact you again, I

"Dorothy..."

too much baggage, too deeply entangled, involving the deaths of both our mothers! Indeed, being together we only hurt each other. So, let's not be together. It's a way to free

She had

she and Everett just couldn't

the beginning, the difference in status was something that could never fully be erased! If she had been someone of note, someone whose background matched that of the Lopez family, then... there wouldn't have been any issue

of it, it was because she wasn't good

had understood this early on, it felt like a cruel joke by

a dream, a

it was the only way to preserve

about me if you take the

voice couldn't maintain its previously

he tried, he still trembled slightly, out of

was afraid, terrified

that once Dorothy left, he'd never find

and even if she later learned the whole truth, she wouldn't come back to him, like

trust. It had taken him over a decade of effort to

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