His Dangerous Love On Ice
For a moment, she just stared at me, her face going through several expressions—shock, hurt, anger, all cycling through in rapid succession.
"You chose to leave," she repeated slowly. "You chose to abandon everyone who cared about you. To disappear without a word. To build this entire life—" she gestured around the penthouse "—and not once, not in seventeen years, think to reach out to the people who loved you?"
"The people who loved me," I said, "would have understood that I needed to get out. That staying would have destroyed me."
But it was a lie, I never chose to leave, I never choose to be sent to a place meant for only the cursed, but I couldn’t tell her that.