Aiden

My voice is raspy, deep and low. "I can feel you right here." I take Remi's hand and place it over my rapidly beating heart. It's panicked beating mimicking Remi's.

I raise her hand to my head."I can hear what you're thinking right here. Remi, you have it all wrong. My confussion is from not seeing it before now. I helped hone the weapon Payne has become. I never put two and two together. I'm confused because you can easily forgive and look past the things I have done. Yet you feel as though I wouldn't be able to do the same for you. I feel betrayed because you didn't feel you could come to me with this. Yet your family and Blaze knew. Gunner is my best friend and even he didn't feel he could trust me with this secret. My heart breaks for all the pain and suffering you've had to endure in your short life."

I pull a weeping Remi into my lap and kiss the top of her head. I hold her as tightly as I can to my chest. "Your worries about me forgiving you of all you've done is pointless. Ju