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that she had feared this made it both harder and easier. harder, for it became truth in this moment; easier, for teya had rolled this over and over in her mind so long that she had truly believed one day she would lose bridget.
but she felt the air punched out of her all the same — a lump in her throat. she nodded, and the sheen of unshed tears was in her eyes.
"i want this for you, bridget. to be happy." to exist in a world where all these things between them no longer held her.
her smile, though trembling, was true; she opened her arms for an embrace on a hopeful exhale.