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2024-10-29 19:42:56I'm looking at him.
It's just the two of us in his office.
And all my life I have never hated someone as much as I hate this man looking directly in my eyes.
He's staring intently at me.
I can see it allover his face.
I can see it in his eyes.
Pure satisfaction.
Total bliss.
That mean look of victory.
He thinks he has managed to tear me apart into pieces. I will never let him tear me apart. That would be the last thing I ever do...
I know he thinks I'm going to break down in front of him and beg him but I won't.
He wants to play games? Let's play games. It's either I'm the winner or THE FUCKING WINNER. There's no in between. There's no way I'll lose this game he came up with to him. I want to beat him in his own fucking game. I want that to teach him a lesson.
"Are you going to do it or should I call the police?"
I look coldly at him. "Call the police!"
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TRENT Epilogue
CJ'S POVTearing Terra?What does that Even mean?Tearing Terra?To tear her apart is like tearing me apart. When she's hurt, I hurt. When her heart breaks, mine does too. Even when I tried so hard to torture her and cause her pain, at the end of the day, I would feel so bad about myself and completely drained. I would lie asleep at night, thinking about her and that would tear me apart.Tearing her apart tore me apart too.In short, I was not able to tear her apart like I had previously planned.I tried so hard to tear her apart but I was not able to.I wanted to stay away from her. See her suffer from a distance but I couldn't do that as well. I couldn't fucking stay away from her because I wanted to kiss her. Caress her. Tell her I had missed her. And it was so hard for me because I saw her on a daily... Saw that beautiful hair being flipped at meetings... That perfect sweet mouth curving up a happy smile at lunch... T
TRENT Please forgive me
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I knew this moment would come.But I swear to heavens, I was not prepared for it. I was not prepared to explain myself. I don't know if the answers I got are the right answers or if they are answers at all.I open my mouth to say something then I quickly shut up, careful with every word I'll say."Honestly, Cedric... I can blame it on a lot of things but they all come down to me. To my selfishness. It was me..."I take a deep breathe and continue."When I eloped to Russia, I did therapy because I couldn't live with what I had done to you. I had nightmares. I drank myself to sleep. Bars were my favorite spots. But therapy kind of helped me deal with what I had done in a positive manner and learn to live with myself."I swallow hard, nostalgic about those pretty dark days of my life." And through therapy, I learnt some things I didn't know about myself. I had severe anxiety. It's something I had lived with, yet didn't know
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