"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.

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

"Dorothy..."

mothers! Indeed, being together we only hurt each

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

Everett just couldn't work

was something that could never fully be erased! If she had been someone of note,

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

understood this early on, it felt like a cruel joke

live a dream, a ludicrous

from the dream, not clinging to it was the only way to preserve the last bit of her

about me if you take the

maintain

he tried, he still

afraid,

that once Dorothy left, he'd never

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

she wasn't one to easily trust. It had taken him over a decade of effort to

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