iel

ractically hovering around us like a leech. Save us

y heart drives deeper, this ti

taking satisfact

ace. I asked, "Is this really what you want, Alfred! To toss our relationship, famil

your information, this is what I want, what Daniel wants. We need space, Ariela!

p air, How

ing. The best you could do for us, for Dani

ew, but I held them back. I refuse to break

took a pen from the table and signed the divorce paper withou

crashing down on me. The realization that the love I had poured into thi

sing the pent-up emotions a

d to move out of this space. The whole house was

, but I kept walking, trying to escape from

, and a pang of fear gripped me, but I wasn't going back

it down and gave the driver my

couldn't imagine her seeing me this broken, knowi

abandoning my career for man, but I was too

al daughter running

of the car snapped me

e last cash I had before p

the darkness of the night, i

pen, revealing the face of my mother, who had r

ympathy, pain, and anger f

ely pulled m

or turning a deaf ear to her advice, for ignoring t

s po

re hurting yourself," she consoled, s

d to build my home. He called me a failure," I sobbed

ailed, they failed to se

ive part of my heart, the tea

our embrace and looked stra

doesn't know your worth; he failed to see through you for once

rds magically began to form a layer of flesh around my punctured heart, healing and mending the broken piece

did not value me. They underestimated me, but I will prove them wrong. With a gritted jaw and clenched