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My parents stared at me, their faces a mixture of disbelief and outrag

hock hardened back into fury, his

demanded, his voice a low gr

s and landed squarely on him. On the man who had jus

e dangerously calm. "I

ayal, fueling my resolve. I felt strangely powerful, as if shedding the wei

y request the dissoluti

ion was a bomb, this

en the request for one, was a wound unlike any other. He physically staggered bac

ays felt I was unworthy, haven't you? That I was just a placeh

behind him. "Well, now you can have i

deniability, exposing the ugly truth o

. This was not how her script was supposed to go. She was the vi

tered to her chest, her breath

?" she whimpered, her voice filled with a

head. She collapsed backward

spinning around to catch her li

split second, I thought I saw a flicker of doubt cross his features-as if even he notice

my rejection warring with his frantic concern for Kallie, and

n his eyes. "Look what you've done!" he roar

have to be this vicious, to

ng the sting of rejection, and his first instinct was to blame

fection I might have held for

hrieked, rushing to Kallie's side.

are them an

the fake drama, the misplaced loya

ady, heavy with the finality of my choice. I was walking away from

y back. He was still holding Kallie, but for the first time, I f

c. A raw, p