"If your plan is to lift me up high so that I would fall hard, you don't really have to do that. My life is already miserable enough. I'm just a sanitation worker. I don't have any money left. My family has kicked me out. Do you want me to kneel down in front of Mira Hall's grave to apologize? Or do you want to take my life in return..."

"That’s enough!" He violently interrupted her. She would rather believe that he did all this to get revenge for Mira Hall rather than because he liked spending time with her? "Listen to me. To me, Mira Hall is not worth going through all this trouble for. All you have to do is stay by my side."

He looked down at her hands that he was holding. He had been rubbing them for a while, but they were still cold for some reason.

He knew that he lost his temper just now. It felt like she could always stir his emotions easily, making him feel scared, making him feel angry.

The closer he got to her, the more control she had over his emotions, but he could not