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“I want you to get rid of her,” Emilie insists, her quiet tone masking the swirling unrest inside of her. “No, Gabriel, I mean it,” she says, stopping him as he attempts to protest once more. “I don't want to see her here again.”
“Emilie, please," he begs, and in that moment she hates her husband for how his voice goes softer than it ever does for her. “Nathalie's done so much for us; she nearly died to bring you back.”
She knows her ultimatum is wrong, but the beast inside her rears its head. “She goes, or I do.”