It's taken them back to the trenches, too, David thought. My family were Roman Catholics; belief was unquestioned, a habit of thought formed from babyhood. A painful decision, callous—but the only one he could make. The dragging ache inside her flared into a corona of fire.
How could her father seem so imperceptive, then strike at the very root of her pain? Forgiveness? she said. I really am concerned about you, Charli. The way her attraction to me became an obsession was a symptom of it. We couldn't get rid of him that easily.
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