Chapter 10 - The Last PleaTrevor approached me while everyone else packed.
His eyes were red.
“Please.”
I said nothing.
“My mother pressured me.”
Still nothing.
“I didn't mean for you to sleep there.”
I looked at him.
“You watched me carry my suitcase outside.”
He swallowed.
“I was angry.”
“You watched.”
“I was confused.”
“You watched.”
“I thought you would come back inside.”
“You watched.”
He lowered his head.
That was when he finally understood.
There was no sentence he could say that would erase the image of me sitting alone in that shed.
He reached for my hand.
I stepped back.
His face collapsed.
“Do you hate me?”
“No.”
That surprised him.
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“I don't hate you,” I said. “I simply don't love you anymore.”
Sometimes, the quietest sentence is the cruelest one.
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