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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.

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

Silence.

said, barely containing my emotion, "And I know you

glaze over as if he wasn't here anymore.

breathing changed, becoming shorter

"Kester?" I whispered.

still wouldn't

his arm. His skin

you

a long pause.

mother..." he rasped,

a golden moment. Was he

that part of his life must have played a

the moment. But he always

to talk about

said, eyes fixed ahead, "She was at her vanity. Doing her makeup like nothing

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He swallowed.

I stood there thinking maybe she'd look at me...

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