Jade Fern Grove everything costs

It felt right for a moment. It felt good, to see that same hurt she carried with her every day flash across Everett's face. Then he was speaking and all at once she was ashamed and horrified and full of hot directionless anger. And overwhelmed, she felt so overwhelmed; he thought it should have been him and Tybault was here (of course Evander was here, that was a given) and they weren't here to take her back, but they were here for her, why? She wanted to scream.
No - no, it shouldn't have been you. Or me. Or any of us. None of it had to happen, And that was what made it hurt so much. But it did. And I needed you. Now I don't. I don't need anyone. She took a step back from him, and felt it to be true right then; she was finally free, she was wild and unbound and made of nothing but light. No one could touch her. No one would ever touch her again.