“Elora,” he called, stopping her on the third stair. “Give me a reason to cancel it.” She squeezed her eyes shut. Goddamn, how she wished she didn’t love him this much. She wished she weren’t terrified he’d leave her one day when he realized he could find someone warm and loving and carefree. But this was reality. And he needed the woman she was not. “I can’t,” she croaked.
she is so stupid and the reason I'm considering DNF
