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The Warning Regarding the Past
"Elaine—I—" He stopped, leaning back to stare out of the window at the moving countryside. "I can't deny that your leaving was among the most difficult moments of my sorry life. The thought that I had lost you—perhaps forever—was an awful blow." He turned back to meet her periwinkle gaze. "I wish for you to know me as well and yet…I am terrified that you will not at all enjoy what you will find. I am—tainted." He stumbled over the last word, a wealth of meaning pressing against it, the demons in his eyes bright.
Periwinkle, #64