"Don't." She pressed her palm to his chest, over his heart. "Don't be sorry."
She began to move again, slow, and she watched his face, watched the way his eyes lost focus again, the way his mouth opened on that other name. She didn't stop him. She let him have it, let him see what he needed to see, and she felt the power of it, the strange and terrible power of being the one who could give him this.


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