sunday six

from where the firelight fades ch 8 (there will probably be nine chapters altogether, so I'm not currently confident of the chapter title):

"I wanted to keep you safe," she whispers. "I thought if you didn't know, you'd be safe. It didn't matter what you thought of me. Didn't matter you thought I wasn't good enough. Didn't even matter I was lying to you. You'd be safe."