" If you stay, in a week, a month, ten years, it will eventually sink in that I left you to that. I didn’t protect you. I didn’t believe in you. What do I do when the bitterness creeps in, Elle, and you can’t bear to be with me anymore? What do I do? "

― Kristen Ashley , Fairytale Come Alive (Ghosts and Reincarnation #4)