The city’s light shone through the window blinds in thin bright lines, painting Elias’s bare back as he slept.His breathing was slow and heavy, with one of his arms thrown over my waist, which was too heavy to move. I stared at the ceiling, wide awake, counting the spaces between his breaths while Alaric’s words kept replaying in my head, over and over again.Fifteen years ago. You were twenty-one. I funded it. I remember your voice. Your voice was shaking. You are brilliant.At twenty one, I had been a junior at NYU, I was broke, nervous and desperate for something to go right. The internship had been a miracle to me.Paid, prestigious, with a line on my resume that paved the way for me. The kind of thing that could change everything. And it did. Then, I never thought twice about the anonymous donor. I just signed the papers, whispered a thank you to no one, and cried quietly in a library bathroom.But now the donor had a name. A face.And that face had been inches from mine, and
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