Startled, she immediately retracted her hand. "Don't touch me, Elliot!"

She stared at him in fear as though she was facing a monster.

He said he was ill and she thought that she could accept whatever illness he had; but now that he said he had murdered someone, and that it was his father no less, she couldn't find a way to accept it.

He felt a lump in his throat at her reaction. There was so much more that he wished to tell her, but he knew that she might not want to listen.

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