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“The last t| was here, you seemed to be in such a hurry to do just that.”
“I thought | was keeping you safe; If only | knew you were like a problem magnet.”
“So letguess, you would givea whole crap talk about how you were willing to hurt me, humiliate me, just
to ‘protect’ me.”
That silenced him, and then his gaze found something | had left on, my engagement ring. For sreason, | felt
the need to hide it.
He grasped my hand, staring at it.
“What is this?”
“What does it look like?”
“You're engaged?” He said the words like it didn’t make sense.
“Yes, and keepinghere isn’t really helpingin any way.”
His eyes were once again those cold orbs that sent chills down my spine.
“I guess | deserve this,” he says more to himself than to me. “I should be happy you've moved on, but | can’t be
happy for you, Riley,” he says, looking away fromas if it hurts to stare.
Bullshit. I pulled my hands away from his hold, taking ssteps backwards.
“I never wanted this Thane. I loved you, and you knew that, but you used that against me; you broke me. Do you
know how long I spent crying over you, waiting and hoping you showed up, but you never fucking did; you
moved on and leftthere.
| hated myself; | hated you for bringing out this version of myself, and yet, as much as | hated you, | still waited.
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was easy for me? | had no one; | was in a foreign land, and | had to stare at my mother each day, knowing she
was right about you and you were no good
for me.
Then, | made a choice; | wasn’t going to waste away; | wasn’t going to let you do the sthing withyour
father did to my mother, and so | tried, but you never stopped haunting me; you were there in my dreams; you
were always there.”
| was crying now, and | couldn't hold it back. gods, | hated him so much. | hated him so much for what he put me
through, and all through my little speech, he just stared.
“I fucked up really bad. I thought | was doing the right thing.”
“The right thing for me, or for you? It has always been about you and your many problems, you were the one
with the problems notand yet you madefeel like | wasn’t good. enough, you madequestion my self
worth. | was so desperate for you, gods, | was willing
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to bring myself so low, just to be with you. Not anymore”
“Riley | was too dangerous; my actions hurt you and | knew that, but you were never going to be safe with me,
and that becclear after the attack.”
“Excuses. That's all you gave me. | believed in what we had, and | was wrong.”
“No, you weren't. You thought | moved on? | couldnt get you off my mind for even a fucking second. | was
miserable, Riley, and yet | couldn’t go to you until | was sure | had full control, until | was sure | would never hurt
you again. | was not planning on letting you go, | was going to cfind you because it took only a single day to
realize | could not leave without you” A part ofalways knew, | knew he was trying to keep away, only so he
wouldn't hurt me, that didn’t make things any different. If he loved me, he would have found another way. |
would never let myself fall one more time. | hadn't fully recovered from the past hurt, | wasn’t going to let myself
get tangled in this mess once more.
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