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Taylor closed his eyes in torment. When he opened them again, the grief and regret inside seemed enough to devour his soul.
“And you keep saying Lily stole your life, that she took your ce…”
He suddenly lifted his gaze toward Bodger and Mergan. “Ask yourselves honestly–was Lily ever enjoying some blessed life by being adopted into the Ginger family? If anything, she healed us. She even saved both me and Mom’s lives. She owes us nothing! In fact, if she had been adopted by the Luke family instead, she would’ve lived better. If she had gone to the Luke family, she wouldn’t have been bullied, wouldn’t have been targeted by us, wouldn’t have been left alone, helpless… How unlucky was she, to end up in our house instead?”
Every word shredded him from the inside out.
His voice broke as he pressed his hands to his face, choking back sobs until he could speak again.
“Do you even know what happened a week ago? On the way home with Mathilda, I got into a car ident. The moment the car was hit, without a second thought, I
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shielded her with my body. She walked away nearly unscathed, while I was injured, unable to move. I thought that since I’d risked my life to protect her, seeing me hurt, she would worry, she would care, she would try to save me. Do you know what she did? She climbed out of the car and ran. Ran–because she was afraid of being dragged down with me. But years ago<i>, </i>in another ident, when the car began leaking oil and could have exploded any second, it was Lily who pulled me out. Lily, who cheered me on to stay awake, who carried me to safety at the risk of being blown to pieces <i>or </i>burned. alive. That’s how I survived then.”
He looked at his brothers, anguish twisting his face. “We always said blood was thicker than water, that Mathilda was our blood sister, so we had to protect her. But the truth is, blood means nothing. Even without our blood, Lily called us her brothers for twelve years. She was family. She was our sister. And yet we abandoned her, for that parasite, and drove her into despair with our own hands!”
The raw truth in Taylor’s voice pierced Bodger and Mergan. They squeezed their eyes shut, their hearts seared with pain.
They had always known Lily hadn’t caused Mathilda’s abduction.
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But they’d buried the truth beneath their guilt, shoving all me onto Lily to escape their own conscience.
And deep down, they had always known Lily was more innocent than any of them.
After Mathilda was found, they could have cherished both–making amends to their blood sister while continuing to love the foster sister who had saved them again and again.
Instead, like fools bewitched, they believed every poisonous word Mathilda spoke. And they had broken Lily’s heart beyond repair.
When Lily had firste into the Ginger family, they had wanted to be good brothers, to treat her with all the warmth in their hearts.
How had they grown up only to grow crueler, to nearly destroy the very sister who gave them warmth?
“I was wrong…”
Bodger clutched his chest in agony. “I never should’ve led the bullying. I never should’ve hurt Lily again and again for Mathilda’s sake…”
Taylor’s face twisted with pain as well. What he wanted
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most now was to see Lily, to look her in the eye and say the words that burned his throat: *I was wrong. I regret everything.*
“I need to find Lily. I need to beg for her forgiveness…”
He didn’t look at his brothers again, didn’t care to hear Mathilda’s excuses. Muttering hoarsely, he staggered toward his car.
“I’m going too. I have to see her…”
Bodger, filled with regret, rushed after him.
Mergan’s heart twisted with a darker, selfish emotion. He still couldn’t bear that Lily carried James’s child.
But knowing how badly they had wronged her, he told himself it was understandable that she had sought someone to lean on, that she had ended up pregnant with James’s baby.
Once he found a way to get rid of that child, he thought grimly, he would cradle her in his hands and cherish her the way he should have all along.
With that in mind, he cast Mathilda a cold, hateful nce before striding off to join his brothers.
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Mathilda’s face was etched with pain and despair, her heart sinking into ice.
They <i>just </i><i>left</i>?
She was still lying broken in the dirt, her body covered in wounds, barely able to move. Didn’t they fear she might die here?
How <i>could </i><i>they </i><i>be </i><i>so </i><i>heartless</i>?
Were they really throwing her away–for Lily?
That <i>bitch</i>.
It was <i>all </i><i>Lily’s </i><i>fault</i><i>! </i>
Mathilda mmed her hand down in rage.
But her shattered bones screamed, blood smearing across the ground. She hadn’t hurt Lily–only herself.
The agony tore a shriek from her throat, her strength giving out until her face copsed into the mud.
By cruel chance, her mouth was open, and foul, stinking water rushed in, filling her throat with filth.
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