FOR HER SAKE
“Tired of dodging. If he tried to fix what he couldn’t control, maybe that’s on me now: to finish fixing it.”
Gabriel’s chair scraped. He stood in a motion that was all contained heat. “You don’t have to do this alone,” he said. “You don’t have…”
I cut him off because I was aware of how sound can become armor. “I know.” I looked at him properly then, at the scar that snagged his mouth when he thought of the past, at the patience that had become a second spine. “But this is the way it ends. Either I finish it or it keeps going. The ledger is leverage. If I don’t use it, someone else will, someone worse.”
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