IT STARTED WITH A LIE AND ENDED WITH US.
she said, each word measured and deliberate, "then no. I don't want it. I don't want any of it."
Justin recoiled as if she had struck him. His mouth opened, then closed. For a moment, he looked almost physically wounded—his face pale, his eyes wide, his carefully constructed composure crumbling around him.
But Bianca wasn't finished.
She broke down completely then—not the quiet, controlled tears she had shed in Monica's arms earlier, but something messier, uglier, more honest. Her body shook with sobs that seemed to come from somewhere deep and ancient, somewhere that had been hurting for a very long time. She pressed her hand against her mouth, trying to stifle the sounds, but they escaped
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