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Chapter 49 : Without YOU
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2024-10-29 19:42:56Ivanna
A week.
A damn week passed and it doesn't feel like air passing by. It feels like a minute passing like a year.
For the first two days, I was disturbed and guilty for uttering such hurtful things to him. I didn't know what I was doing. I knew what kind of man he was. He was anything but not someone who forces himself on a woman. But I literally hit that point of him. What did I want when I was accusing him?
Maybe, I wanted him to get tired of me. I wanted him to get annoyed and stop caring about me. I wanted him to hurt me back for hurting him. I didn't want to fill the voids between us. Because deep down, I was scared to accept how far we have come. I was scared to admit that I was falling for him when I was already in love with someone else. I was going crazy after him who did so many wrong things to my family.
I just wanted to stop myself. At any cost.
However, I didn't know it would be so hard. So damn hard.
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