“You know what the only consolation in all of this is? That you had it. You finally got what you really wanted in the deepest part of you. You had me. Because I fell for you, so hard, and so completely—without abandon. I fell for you in ways you could have only dreamed about. You had me.” The malice in my tone is almost palpable. “And now, that’s gone. Done. You’ll go the rest of your life knowing exactly what it felt like to have everything you wanted and then lose it. Forever.”
