Shattered Obsession

Cormac leaned back in his chair and rubbed a hand over his jaw.

"That's what you want to ask me?"

"And that's the answer you give me by asking me a question of your own?"

"Nyssa," he sighed. "After everything that's happened, that's what you want to know?"

"Yes, Cormac. That's what I want to know."

He stared at me for a long moment, then his smile disappeared completely.

"Because I was stupid."

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