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She bristled a little at his comment, but listened through and kept her tone even on her response. I do get a say in what it’s about. Because I get to say what I feel too, and I told you we’d talk later. It’s later.

And I want to know what you mean, ‘when you’re around me’. Because you haven’t been around me for a year, and not being around me for longer isn’t going to help you sort it out. You can’t get better at something by not doing it, and if you’re leaving, it should be to go towards something. Not away from it. Believe me, I’d know.

If he thought he could fix anything by leaving, he was wrong. She wouldn’t accept any reason that was rooted in a problem, and if he left, he was going to have to do it without her blessing. And he was going to have to put up with her giving him shit about it every chance he got, because that’s what she’d wished she had any time she’d chosen to run away from her problems.