~Five hargreeves•.

The wall clock in Diego's house struck eight-thirty when the silence was broken. I stood there, in shock. Everything changed when Diego noticed a bracelet on Layla's wrist and reprimanded her, saying she didn't like them. Then he looked at Five. The silence was worse than any shouting. Five tensed beside me. I felt his breath catch. Diego froze and asked, "Did you give it to her? "Layla looked at him nervously, giving him the answer. " It's not what it looks like," Five said, his voice, usually so confident, cracking. I stood up so fast that my glass fell to the floor and the wine spilled onto the carpet. My heart was pounding so hard I thought it would burst. I looked at Five. This man who had lived through decades for his family, who had looked at me as if I were the only constant in a universe falling apart… now he couldn't hold my gaze. "While I was waiting for you at home, thinking you were working for the CIA… you were with her? "Five took a step toward me, his green eyes, usually so calculating, filled with something I'd never seen in him before: real fear. Listen to me… it wasn't… I didn't mean to… You didn't mean to? My voice cracked. Then what was it, Five? The atmosphere grew heavy, suffocating. Klausy Luther stopped drinking, Allison put a hand to her mouth, Viktor stared at the floor as if he wanted to disappear. And I… I just felt the world crumbling around me, exactly like when the apocalypse hit, only this time there was no way to jump to another time to fix it. Five reached out to me, trembling slightly. Please… And I, my heart shattered in my chest, could only think one thing as I looked at Five: I wish I had never loved you so much .