You're wrong! You're so wrong. [ she fought to keep from shouting, so that people wouldn't get nosy and barge in, trying to interrupt or separate them. Jen held her gaze down to May as much as it hurt to watch and hear the other woman suffering through. they were both suffering, in their own ways. ]

I look up to you because you had a choice. Your lives were blended together, but you chose to stick with this. You could have given it all up, gone back to the same habits as when you were with Yin. But you know what it would have gotten you, right? You had to have realized that and then made an honest-to-God effort to maintain this.

I'm sorry, May. [ Jen delivered it in a resigned, exhausted tone. ] I'm truly sorry, if you didn't leave room in your heart for anyone else but her.