She stared at the walls of the study as Ivy told her everything, barely controlling her anger.
"He is alive. All this time, he was alive!" She swore under her breath as Rory said nothing.
What could she say? "You let Daya believe he left her! Why would you do something so unimaginable cruel?"
"Because it was the only way. He knew what he was signing up for. He knew he could die. He chose this. I didn't make him choose this." Her voice was even and careful, but her heart broke into a thousand pieces thinking about the dark eyes like the night and everything he stood for.
He chose this.
'But you let him.'
It was the only way to save the world. They asked her to do this. They asked her to kill her husband, and she obliged them, and now Ivy stood there accusing her of the thing she asked her to.
