Annie listened in silence, her breath hitching as hot tears streamed down her cheeks. Regret weighed heavy in her chest. She hadn't known. She hadn't understood Finn's fears at all.

She had always claimed she wanted the best for him, that everything she did was for his sake.

But in the end, she had been nothing more than a fool-one who only made things worse.

And Finn... Finn was the one left to pick up the shattered pieces of her mistakes.

What she thought was helping had only made ...