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But she couldn’t forgive herself. She was convinced that if she carried on her research, she’d hurt more people. It was nothing but an accident.”
“She never mentioned it,” I murmured.
Theo nodded.
“She wouldn’t. Her son died a year before the accident. I think that loss opened something in her.
And when she couldn’t contain the loss, she carried the guilt of hurting me.”
“And how did you end up here?”
“Before Irene went off the grid,” Theo explained. “She set up a trust. It paid for my healthcare…
But there was so much more. I used it to continue the research she abandoned. I’ve built a whole safe version of it, because of her.
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