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B R O K E N H E A R T
Fiona approached him. “Colin. This is important.”
“Important, huh? Does it concern your new best friend?”
Fiona sighed. “Colin—”
“Just stop! I get it. You accept our lives as slaves. You—”
“Colin, you’re free! Ok?” Fiona cried. “Just leave. Take the boat and go.” She looked to the floor.
Colin felt betrayed. “What about you? I don’t understand. All this time, the plan was to escape once we get to Spain.”
“I know. But…” Fiona looked at Ronan. “I’m staying.”
“You’re what?”
“I’m staying. Ronan needs me. And I need him.”
Ronan joined her. “Just tell him.” He whispered.
Colin just waited for the bad news to begin.
“I love him.” Fiona confessed.
“But...” Colin cried. “He took everything from us. Everything!”
“I’m sorry. But you’re free to go. Take the boat.”
Colin’s mouth was frozen. He couldn’t speak. Trying to fathom the words he just heard, he left silently and got in the boat and cut the rope.
Splash! The boat hit the water and he began paddling. He was leaving. His own twin chose to stay with her captor, rather than escape with him.
Colin rowed the little boat out on the tall waves. As the waves grew taller the little boat almost began fill up. But Colin kept pushing water out and cupping it with his hands.
He wiped sweat from his forehead. Was he about to have a shipwreck?
Fiona sobbed. “I feel terrible. I can’t just leave him.”
“It was his choice.”
“But it’s true.”
“What is?”
Fiona gazed into his eyes. “You did take everything away from us. If it wasn’t for you, we’d all be sitting around the table and—” Fiona hugged him close. “Oh, what am I saying.”
Ronan looked down at her.
“Marry me. Fiona, please.”
“You don’t think it’s too early?”
“I don’t know what to think. All I know is that I love you.”
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