Alpha, Let's End This Bond!
I said quietly, “don’t disappear from your own life because you’re tired. Rest, sure. Reevaluate, absolutely. But don’t give up something that makes you you just because the world got loud.”
Alder exhaled slowly, like he’d been holding his breath.
Wynne stared at the table for a long moment.
“I just don’t want to regret it,” she said.
“You will,” I said honestly, “if you decide it for the wrong reasons.”
She looked up at me then, her eyes searching.
“And what are the wrong reasons?” she asked.
I thought of Luca and the estate, about how easily women were absorbed into roles they never auditioned for.
“Fear,” I said. “And guilt.”
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