“I never lied to you. She didn’t tell me who she was until afterwards. I wouldn’t have done it if I had known, I swear.”
Did Theo believe him? He didn’t know anymore. He wanted to, he really did, his family was one of the most important things to him ever, cousins included. It just… it was too hard. It hurt.
To be fair, it wasn’t all on Dominic, but there was nothing much he could to with her blame now that she was dead. Theodore loved her, honestly, probably more than he has ever loved anyone, even more than mareena, and he really bloody loved mareena. It was different, it was hard, but they made the effort to make it work even with the distance. Or so he thought… all that, and nothing. She cheated on him like nothing. Not just with anyone, but with his own cousin.
And then he kept on talking, and by the way he spoke, it seemed genuine. But if there’s anything Theo had learned even more that day, it was thy some people are bloody good liars.
“Oh f-ck. She’s not-”
”She’s not…” he whispered, his voice partly breaking as he admitted it once again.
”I would never want to ruin your life, Theo, and I’m not going to take her away from you."
“Do you really think I’d do something like that?”
Theo remained silent as he stood there. He couldn’t look him in the eyes anymore it was all too much, did he believe him? Did he not? What now? She wasn’t his kid. Mentally, yes. Has Dom ever fed her or taken care of her? No, but… god dammit. ”I don’t know…” he managed to whisper, on the verge of breaking down. He hated breaking down in front of people. and this, well, it was bad. ”I can’t-“ he whispered and turned around walking away from the place, to somewhere quiet, alone. He just couldn’t, he couldn’t stand there, he couldn’t face him, he couldn’t think straight and nothing made sense anymore…