Hazel’s POVFor a moment, I just sat there, unable to move or speak. He loved me. Had always loved me.I waited breathlessly for more, my heart singing from his confession. Finally, after all these years, the truth.But Ulysses’s voice shifted, trembling with conflicting emotions that made my stomach drop.“But she was cruel,” he said, his words slurring with pain. “So unspeakably cruel.”What?“She did something vicious to Kimberley,” his voice grew stronger, more anguished. “Something so terrible it forced that poor girl to wander and suffer for three whole years.”The accusation sliced through me. My joy shattered into a thousand pieces.No. No, not this again.“Kimberley was innocent,” he continued, his subconscious spilling out the poison that had been fed to him. “Just a frightened girl who’d been kidnapped, tortured, held prisoner. And when she finally escaped, when she finally made it home, Hazel couldn’t even show remorse.”My hands curled into fists against my skirt. Every wo
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