"I didn't do anything wrong," she whispers it against his neck, and she doesn't think about who he is, that he'd made Tyler bite her, that she'd asked him moments ago if he meant to kill her, and she'd meant it. It was something more than that, and she was shaking when he held her close, but her voice broke as she spoke, the tears starting even though she didn't want them. "You saved me, you made him not come after me, why? Why do you care?" Her voice broke then, and she started crying, those soft, strangled sobs he'd heard once before, the day she'd shown up.
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