“I did write to you, Charlotte.” Terrence suddenly looks pale. “I swear to you, I did! But you never wrote back. I even sent you gifts. With the money from my first part-time job, I bought you a bracelet, the one with the butterfly on it. Your father told me you got it. Don’t say I didn’t write to you when you were the one who didn’t respond to my letters.”

I stare at him blankly. “You sent that bracelet to Arabella. I remember because she taunted me with it.”

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