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''Stop. You're doing it again. Driving yourself crazy to no purpose''. <br><br> | ''Stop. You're doing it again. Driving yourself crazy to no purpose''. <br><br> | ||
β | All the what-ifs in the Universe would not bring him back. I would never get to say goodbye or explain the choices I made that left him outside the life he'd hoped to build with me. He wasn't blameless, but neither was I. And no matter his true intentions at the end, the fact remained that I had already given myself to another against his reasonable expectations otherwise, and he had fought to get me back. And lying on the marriage bed behind me was the man who | + | All the what-ifs in the Universe would not bring him back. I would never get to say goodbye or explain the choices I made that left him outside the life he'd hoped to build with me. He wasn't blameless, but neither was I. And no matter his true intentions at the end, the fact remained that I had already given myself to another against his reasonable expectations otherwise, and he had fought to get me back. And lying on the marriage bed behind me was the man who won. <br><br> |
β | ''So pull your head out of your ass and turn that around. How do you think Joshua feels? He's had to deal with Mike always looking over his shoulder. Dogging his footsteps. Always being better. Always being '''first | + | ''So pull your head out of your ass and turn that around. How do you think Joshua feels? He's had to deal with Mike always looking over his shoulder. Dogging his footsteps. Always being better. Always being '''first''. Feeling he'll never have all of me but only whatever Mike's left behind.'' <br><br> |
Furthermore, Joshua had never killed before. Killing is a life changer. It divides your existence into a Before and an After. For all the years I'd known him, Joshua held off stepping into that territory by any means he could. And now there would be no washing the blood off his hands. How would he live with that? And how would he live knowing he did it, in part, for me?<br><br> | Furthermore, Joshua had never killed before. Killing is a life changer. It divides your existence into a Before and an After. For all the years I'd known him, Joshua held off stepping into that territory by any means he could. And now there would be no washing the blood off his hands. How would he live with that? And how would he live knowing he did it, in part, for me?<br><br> |