(Tyler’s POV …Cont’d)
It broke my heart to hear her saying such things. So I stepped in closer to her and pulled her into a gentle hug. “My sweet little girl. You haven’t failed anyone, Princess. If anything, we failed you.”
She began to protest what I'd said, but I shook my head slowly. “No. It’s true. We all got so caught up in our own problems and emotions that we failed to see how everyone else was affected by everything too…
… But not you. You tried so hard to be there for everyone but all we did was push you away. Because of that, you were f*rced to fight a losing battle all on your own. It took me time to see, but eventually I did. And so did your Mother. We’ve tried to change that. But we failed you.”
It was the truth. We had failed her. All of us did. I just never dreamed she
