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Bonus Chapter 16

That gets her.

“I’m sorry,” she breathes out. And I can hear the ache in her words. “I failed you,” she says, staring out the party. “There is no excuse good enough to erase what I said.”

I bite my lip until it hurts. I know it’s difficult for her to say that. I feel it.

But then the next whisper...