"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,

"Dorothy..."

baggage, too deeply entangled, involving the deaths of both our mothers! Indeed,

wasn't one to take things lightly. She had been thinking about this

she and Everett just couldn't

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

it, it was because she

had understood this early on, it felt like a

let her live a

dream, not clinging to it was the only way

about me if you take the kids

maintain

though he tried, he still trembled slightly,

afraid, terrified

left,

that she would truly give up on him, and even if she later learned the whole truth, she wouldn't come back to him,

It had taken him over a decade of effort to finally make her

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