Rhaena's POVI felt myself go instantly alert, my earlier drowsiness evaporating, my body tensing in the doorway."What are you doing here, Jake?" I asked, my voice flat, giving nothing away."Rhaena," he said, and his voice cracked slightly on my name, which might have moved me once, months ago, before I'd learned exactly how little his voice cracking actually meant. "Can we talk? Please?""We don't have anything to talk about," I said. "And you shouldn't be here. You gave up any right to just show up whenever you feel like it a long time ago.""I know," he said quickly. "I know, I just - I needed to see you. Can I please come in? Just for a few minutes. I have things I need to say to you."I looked at him for a long moment, weighing the risk against the small, treacherous part of me that wondered if maybe, finally, I'd get some kind of real closure out of this. But then I thought about how he'd shown up at my office uninvited, how he'd grabbed my arm hard enough to leave a mark, how
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