"No." He shook his head firmly. "Ryan just needed to stop feeling guilty. I'm sure he felt comfortable with you because he felt miserable. Didn't you tell me he knew what we did?" I just looked at him without denying it.
"There you have it… I think he unconsciously thought he only deserved someone like you."
"You were just a distraction disguised as love. An illusion. But the i***t didn't learn the lesson." He continues.
"And Candace?" I say with a bitter smile. "Was it also an illusion of how well she got along with me? Don't give me that look, you weren't there when she hugged me. When she asked me to braid her hair like I used to before her performances. Do you really think a child fakes that?"
"Children don't fake. But they do get confused. You manipulated her. You gave her tainted
