Sorry means you change the behavior, was on the tip of Meer's tongue, but did not make sense in this situation. There was no behavior for Baxter to change; there was only the two of them, and the well of history that sat between them. "I know," Meer said, and slumped against the door of his office. He was sorry. He was sorry, and that did not change anything, because the truth was that he had never loved her enough, but he had let her think so. And now she didn't know what to do with herself.

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