JulianI must say, I didn’t expect Evan to show up at my apartment so early in the morning after our previous conversation. He wasn’t the type to knock softly or wait politely either, but when I opened the door, he stood there with both hands shoved deep into his pockets, like a kid caught doing something wrong. His eyes were rimmed red, and his shoulders slouched in a way I hadn’t seen since we were teenagers.“You said you wanted help,” I reminded him gently. “I’m here. That hasn’t changed.”He didn’t enter right away. He lingered at the doorway, glancing up and down the hallway as if someone had followed him. When he finally stepped inside, he did it fast, closing the door behind him with a shaky breath.“I can’t do this alone anymore,” he muttered.That was the closest thing to an admission I’d ever gotten from him, so I signaled toward the couch, and he dropped onto it with his elbows on his knees, looking like the world was pressing its entire weight onto his back.It took a whi
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