Chapter.1

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I.

Battle tended to strip her to her barest self; of instinct and muscle memory and snap judgments.

So when she heard her name from two directions, two desperate cries for aid; she was already moving towards one of them before she realized what she had done.
She was running to the man she owed her life, rather than the man she loved.

It was automatic for her to go to Clint; natural. She didn't even think beforehand, she just went.

But this time, she looked back.

Steve could handle whatever it was, she knew. She trusted in that implicitly.

She tried to tell herself she was going to help the least advantaged of the two of them, that this wasn't what it was.

Even so, the new bond that connected her to Steve seemed to pull painfully tight as he shattered, watching her leave.

His eyes caught hers, and they both knew she would never be able to give him what he deserved.

There was too much of her tied to another man.

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