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• He lowered his torso onto my back and pressed his face between my shoulder blades, right next to the bruise, all while he gripped my sides.
• My heart broke a bit. I hadn’t realized how much guilt he was carrying for what his father had done to me.
• “It wasn’t your fault, Ace,” I said. “You didn’t know your father would be here. And you definitely didn’t know that I was going to be here. There was nothing you could’ve done.”