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Chapter 319

My heart sank.

"So... you stopped because it was her idea?"

He looked back at me, and there was something cracked in his gaze stopped because there's nothing wrong with me, Kasmine. I'm not some broken, messed

case. I didn't need help. I don't need help."

I swallowed the ache in my throat. "Kes..."

"All I ever needed and would ever need is you," he whispered, "Can't you see what you're doing to me? How much you've already changed me? You're the only help I'll ever need."

My throat tightened.

This wasn't a man in denial. No, This was a man gripping tightly to the only thing that's kept him afloat me. It broke something in me. It made my next words tremble on my tongue, but I had to say them.

"No, Kester," I said softly, You're not fine. You're not okay."

His face darkened, but he didn't interrupt me.

let me near," I continued. "Whatever happened to you when you were younger... the things you won't talk about... they've shaped you

Silence.

you better than you

over as if he wasn't here anymore. As if a part of him had slipped behind the walls

changed, becoming

"Kester?" I whispered.

wouldn't look

His skin

are you thinking

long pause.

he rasped,

was like a golden moment. Was he going to talk

life must have played a

moment. But he always

to talk about

eyes fixed ahead, "She was at her vanity. Doing her makeup like nothing was wrong. Lipstick too red, eyes too tired... She

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He swallowed.

drop me at school. She didn't even pause-just said to. I stood there thinking maybe she'd look

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