Chapter 114: You Mean a Hell Lot to Her than You Think

[Juliette’s POV]

Intuition. I remember. The one I felt with Ralph. The one he told me to remember. And then I saw it clearly, what Luke was trying to do—what he has been doing to me all these years. It was as clear as his love for mother.

He was trying to make me hate Ralph. If I don’t, he’s gonna make me feel bad about it for the rest of my life.

I worried for Ralph. He was going to be reminded of all the pain from being forced to kill, and all the shame for doing so.

I want to go to him. To Ralph. But I couldn’t feel my feet. I was too distraught by the images in my head… of Ralph pointing a gun at the kids the way he did to Big Nose….

Ralph felt really awful when he killed Big Nose—ridding his offspring of a father, his wife of a husband. Imagine killing those women and kids… the grief he had to live with all those years….

Stop talking, Luke… stop raking the past… you’re hurting him….

I was swimming in guilt for once again putting him and me in such danger. I saw Ben st