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“I loved you then I love you now” He kissed the tip of my nose “I’ll love you always”

“You love e used to be, not e are now It’s over You know it’s over”

We had to be I couldn’t continue to allow him to sacrifice more than he already had forto hih everyselfish and put his needs and wants first

I loved hiive him what he truly yearned for I tried…

But I was broken

He shook his head “I don’t want this for us, and I know you don’t want it either We’re still here, sweetness Deep inside, it’s still us”

“Christian, please… I’ to set you free I’ you all the time I can’t live like this anymore”

“Well, I can’t live without you”

I opened ether in my devastated expression It was the least I could do This was killing me too I didn’t want this, but I didn’t have another choice I’d o, and it had cost me the love of my life

“How do I look at the woman I love and just walk away fro clue”

I sed hard while more tears slid down my cheeks “I know you blame me”

“That’s not true”

“Yes, it is I can see right through you I always have, and I alill I wish I could change things If I could go back… Fuck, I just can’t do this anye, and now I see it in the way you look at me, in the way you talk tolike you don’t”

“I don’t care anyh it”

“All you’d be doing is settling forto o”

“The fuck I do”

I shoved hireed!”

“What other choice did you give me?”

“The only choice we have left!”

“That’s not the answer!”

Our chests were rising and falling in unison which was the only thing in sync with us

“How can you not see it? What you’re doing to yourself, to me—to us?”