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After a long moment he said, rougher than he intended, “I should’ve pushed harder.”
Maddie didn’t interrupt.
“I knew he wasn’t okay.” Eddie rubbed a hand over the back of his neck. “Maybe not how bad, but I knew. And I let him tell me he was fine because…” He exhaled hard. “Because I wanted it to be true.”
The confession sat between them, stripped bare.
Maddie was quiet for so long Eddie wondered if he’d said the wrong thing after all. Then she leaned forward, elbows on her knees.
“Eddie,” she said softly, “if loving Buck meant always knowing how to save him, none of us would ever sleep again.”