“You didn’t do anything wrong. You saw a chance to keep Elizabeth safe, and you took it. It doesn’t matter what it was you did to help her, it worked.”
“Stop making excuses for me, Selene. It was the first real challenge I had to overcome and I made a bad decision. I should have gone outside with my sister to find him and make sure he didn’t even get to the house. I didn’t, and you are the one who has had to suffer for it.” He had intended to reassure her, but this was a different facet of the insecurity he had revealed to Elizabeth in a very different manner. He thought it was more important to be truthful with Selene when it had obviously been bothering him more than he had realised. “I f****d up. I really, truly, and undeniably f****d up. But you are incapable of seeing me as anything
