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I love you. It was right at the tip of her tongue, but she hesitated, biting the words back. There was a part of her that felt she might doom them if she said it. If there were important things left unspoken, tomorrow would come. She kissed him instead.

“I can’t—I can’t do this again—” he finally gasped out. “I can’t care for someone again. I can’t take it.” She blindly found his face, pressing her hand against his cheek, felt tears slide along her palm and down her wrist.
“I’m sorry. I’m so sorry, Kaine.” She said it again and again.

“Don’t die, Kaine,” she said.
The line he walked frightened her. If the array was the punishment for a failure, what would the price of betrayal be?
A smirk twisted his mouth as he looked at her. “There are far worse fates than dying, Marino.”
She nodded. “I know. But that one you don’t come back from.”
He gave a bitter laugh. “All right, then, but only because you asked.”

“You made me feel like the parts of me that aren’t useful still deserve to exist. Like I’m not just all the things I can do.”

“It’s your choice” my ass it’s her choice

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