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Maybe.

And if she did…

I’d sit down with her.

I’d tell her.

Everything.

My fingers curled.

Nyssa.

No.

Start again.

There are things about Theresa you don’t know.

Wrong.

My hand dropped slightly.

There are things about me.

Closer.

Fuck.

I closed my eyes.

I was a mercenary.

Still not enough.

Because that wasn’t the truth she needed.

Not all of it.

I opened my eyes and the door blurred. Not my vision. I became the Revenant before Lily died.

There.

My chest seized.

Say it.

Knock.

Tell her.

My hand moved.

Almost.

Then Theresa appeared. Sitting on that damn blanket. Lily running in front of her. Crosshairs over both of them. Killian’s opened throat. Bethany’s empty stare. Nyssa’s ruined hand. Her scars. The Clove Man. Everything collided. My hand fell.

Jesus.