He Chose my Cousin, so I Chose Revenge
“There will be no undoing. She burned every bridge she had. You can see it in the silence that follows her name. No one wants to risk being tied to her again.”
I listened, my fingers resting lightly against the rim of my glass. For months, her name had been a wound. Now it was only an echo.
“Do you feel relief?” Lena asked, turning to me. “Or does it feel empty?”
I considered the question. “Both. Relief, because the battles are over. Empty, because so much of my life had been wrapped around fighting. When the silence comes, it feels almost too wide.”
Julian reached for my hand under the table, grounding me. “Silence can also mean space,” he reminded me.
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