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When I broke into your apartment.
It wasn’t Leo that broke in that time we went to stay with Hades. It was Hugo.
“Hugo—”
He spins again, dipping down to snort another line of coke. When he whips his gaze back to me, it’s glassy. I flinch when he suddenly rushes to my side, a horrified expression on his face as he crouches down to my eye level.
“Dear God,” he chokes. “Did he…” he swallows. “Did herape you, my love?”
I want to vomit.
“It’s all right, you can tell me, Elsa. Just tell me, and I will forgive you. I know it would be hard for any man to resist you.”
My stomach turns.
I could say yes. I could just say it, and end this. Or at least temper his mania and his anger.
I can’t.
“No,” I choke out, shaking my head. “No, he didn’t…”
The worry in his eyes dissipates.
“…because I love him, Hugo.”
He stares at me, eyes unblinking and the color draining from his face.
“No,” he whispers.
“Hugo… Sometimes you feel things for someone, and they don’t feel the same way back—”
“NO!”
I gasp as he screams in my face, lurching to his feet and backing away.
“Elsa…”
“I love him,” I choke. “Hugo, there’s someone out there for you, I know there is!Please! Just… Just let us go.”
Hugo starts to cry. My gaze slips from him to my sister.
I willnotlet her come to harm.
She willnotdie here.
“Please,Hugo—”
“NO!” he roars. “No, I can’t! I won’t! My love,” he hisses, “I refuse to believe that you don’t—”
“Okay!”
My gaze snaps back to Nora again, so pale, so terrified.
I’m getting you out of here.
“Okay!”
I swallow, turning back to Hugo.
