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looked up. His eyes were red, but the tears in them held no repentance. They held only the agonizing frustration of a rat caught in a trap.
He wasn’t crying because of what he had done.
He was crying because he had lost.
“Yes,” he whispered.
His mother’s hand recoiled from his head like she had touched a hot stove. She stumbled backward, collapsing into continue reading …
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