
"No, you don't," Lae screamed, watching Noli with more pain than anger in her eyes. She hated that her hurt was showing through, but it wouldn't go away now, she knew.
"Because if you'd cared, Noli, if you'd cared you wouldn't have done it. You'd have thought about us. And you'd be thinking about us now. But like always, you aren't. You're only thinking about yourself! You only think about how this hurt affects you. How everything affects you.
"When you try to fix things you make them worse because you're selfish, Noli. All you care about is you and your feelings. So just let me handle it, okay? I've been taking care of everything else in our lives. You don't get to come in now and ruin it all over again for Papa.