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EDITH
If you get too close to the fire, you obviously end up getting burnt.
I was a fool!
I had played with Jake confident that I would come out unscathed. I was convinced that underneath that bravado there was nothing but pure stupidity.
But then I had seen him in that club. There was such suffering in his gaze that it had taken my breath away. I had had to resort to all my self-control to remain cool, but above all, my crusader syndrome had awakened certain emotions I hadn't felt in a long time.
I had once read that it was not up to us to save the other person and that belief could only lead to the end of the relationship. Yet at that moment I really wanted to save him, to erase from his mind all pain from the loss of his mother, from the fights with hi
