“I didn’t want time, Chris. I wanted you to keep your promise. I wanted you to come back, and like a fucking fool, I waited for you. Hoped for you. Believed in you, in us.” The tears I’d managed to fight back when running out of the restaurant come back with a vengeance, rolling down my cheeks gracelessly as my lips wobble. “And now it’s too late. The only thing I learned in the time you gave me is that I was right to ask for it. I should have never let your promise rob me of my sense because this is always going to be us. More pain than happiness, more heartache than love.”
