I had been confused about that line, until the day I caught her in front of the bathroom mirror, counting the steel beads in her own tongue.That was when I figured out what her method was.Old me, decent person that she was, had actually warned her. "Doing that long-term isn't good for your health. And this is a marriage alliance–you can't just back out. You should take better care of yourself."She thought about it, misunderstood what I meant, and that very night, she gave herself to Marcus.What I had not seen coming was that, when Marcus's first love came home from overseas, he would walk away from Nina without a backward glance.And in the end, she blamed everything on me.The thought of it made my cheek throb where the knife had gone in.I forced myself to stay calm and asked, as if surprised, "But you've heard the rumors, right? About Marcus and the woman he can't forget?"She nudged me, completely confident. "So what? The thing men love most in this life is the thing th
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