Chapter 57
They gave me a day to recover.
Apollo stayed with me the whole time, in my bed next to me, his arms wrapped around me. I didn’t say anything for along time, I just sobbed. “I ruin everything,” I said finally, when I was able to regain words.
“No,” he said, “this was all my fault. I should have been honest with you from the beginning. If I had, we could have been together sooner, and I could have protected you.”
“Why didn’t you tell me?’ I asked. “If you had told me about my Mom, I would have understood.”
“I didn’t know how,” he said, “and I didn’t want to frighten you off. If it hadn’t been for Orion interfering, I would have gone about things differently. But I didn’t know what you knew.”
“The fact that I was angry about an i********: picture didn’t tip you off?”
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