“You,” he says simply, and I expect him to stop there, but he doesn’t. “And I know that I shouldn’t be here. You asked me for time, and I gave it to you. You said you were going to try and move on with your life and told me to do the same, so I did. I gave it four years, and nothing has ever come close to us. I went to therapy to deal with my shit, the parts of me that felt like I never deserved you, and probably worked silently to ruin us because of it. I gave you time, Mallory."
