" Before you forgave me for accusing you of the worst kind of betrayal, for not recognizing when you were being hurt.” He would forever agonize over that. Would never stop blaming himself for walking away and leaving Syren while he was being hurt so profoundly. “Before I dropped to my knees on that beach with a ring. "

― Avril Ashton , Sinner Like Me (Brooklyn Sinners, #3.5)