(Aaron's POV)
I would rather she live in ignorance, in bliss, hating me for abandoning her.
It's better this way, better that she thinks I'm a coward who got cold feet and ran away, better that she believes I never really loved her, that I was just playing with her feelings, using her for entertainment until I got bored and moved on to someone else, because that kind of anger, that kind of resentment, it's clean, it's simple, it's something she can process and move past eventually, something that won't eat away at her soul the way the truth would.
Than see her suffer in agony, knowing my death was caused by her brothers, all because I loved her.
The guilt would consume her, I know it would, she would replay that night over and over in her mind, wondering if there was something she coul
