“Stop with all of this, please.” I wave my arms as much as I can in the limited space allotted to me. “All this does is make everything else worse, okay?” I say, dropping the facade of the happy girl everyone wants to see. I’m miserable, and every day is full of pain and disappointment. How could he not understand how hard it is to watch him act like I don’t exist when others are around but is now touching me like I’m his when it’s just the two of us. Day after day I watch him betray his vow of love in the name of self-preservation. Rian turned love into a four-letter word, and he has the
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