Angela stood with her head resting against the wall, eyes closed as she waited for the doctor to bring her good news. Deep inside she kept blaming herself for everything that had been happening. To protect everyone, she had no choice but to leave the Academy, but that decision had to remain her secret.
"Are you alright?" Renn's voice broke the silence.
She opened her eyes and found him standing close, his green eyes fixed on her with so much worry that it made her chest ache.
"How can I be?" she whispered, lowering her gaze. "I have been crying so much lately. No matter how broken my life used to be, I never cried this way. Everything changed when I came to this Academy. I accepted all the changes, even the ones that told me my whole life was a lie. I lived with it, I didn't fight it. But now I can't bear watching people get hurt because of me. I can't."
