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I MET WITH ACE.

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Chapter 152

Max

I looked up at my mother through blurry vision. She was crying too, tears streaming down her face as she stood frozen a few feet away.

"Why can't you understand?" I asked, and God, I sounded like a child. Broken and desperate and so, so tired.

"Why can't any of you understand that I love him? That I will never—never—love anyone the way I love him? He's not a phase or a confusion or something I'll grow out of. He's it for me. He's my person. My only person."

My mother dropped to
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