“Then why can’t you say it?” His mouth opens and closes, and the longer he goes without saying anything at all, the more it chips away at me. This is the man who dropped down on one knee only feet from where we’re standing right now, and sounded so confident as he told me he was going to spend the rest of his life loving me. And now he can’t bring himself to form the words. He stays quiet, silently speaking my every fear into existence. I really did ruin this. I destroyed us. It doesn’t matter that my intentions were good or that my heart was in the right place. What matters is that I hurt him
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