Elien;
"I never stopped loving you," I say, and my voice breaks. "Not when I ran... Not when I jumped... Not in the dark, when I was locked behind my own eyes and had to watch you hate me. You were the only thing that stayed with me the whole time. That's the answer. That's all of it. I never stopped loving you."
Nothing comes after that.
Lioran sits there like he's turned to stone. I wait for him to say something, anything, but he doesn't. His hands are on his knees now. He's not clenching them anymore. He's looking at them like he's travelled elsewhere and left his body behind.
Then he falls to his knees. It's so sudden, I flinch back.
