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sadness clouded her features as she looked over at him, “no.” mallory had been one of the few to actually see the body, she wouldn’t have believed without the evidence. “i feel terrible. the fact that this happened while we all slept?” she paused, her voice cracking as she turned away from him, “we could’ve done something.”
he knew he liked her, for so many different reasons, but seeing this side of her was something else entirely. such a terrible thing had happened and her first thought was blame herself for not doing enough, even when it had zero to do with her. “this isn’t your fault mallory. if you were there.. you... you might’ve been hurt too.”













