Ten Years of Wrong Love, I Begged Him to Leave

It was supposed to be a special Valentine’s Day at a trendy couples' restaurant, but a single phone call from Nadia ruins everything. Dismissing her feelings with a promise to return quickly, Cole walks out, leaving her to wait alone until the venue closes. He never comes back. After a decade of devotion and endless waiting, she finally reaches her breaking point. Realizing his promises are empty, she decides to end the cycle of neglect and begs him to leave her life for good.

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Chapter 6

After packing, I realized I only had a suitcase’s worth of clothes, even less than when I moved out after college graduation.

Checking my phone, I saw it was already past midnight.

Cole still hadn’t returned.

No messages either.

It dawned on me that what I thought was a shared journey with Cole was really just me going it alone.

He didn’t care at all.

That was not what he wanted, either.

Dragging my suitcase downstairs to catch a cab, I realized I had nowhere to go.

Hesitating whether to go back up, I suddenly saw Cole.

He wasn’t alone, was he?

The dim lights in the neighborhood were faint, but I could see two figures entering the elevator.

At this hour, it had to be Nadia.

Checking my phone again, sure enough, Cole had replied, “I’m tired. I don’t want to argue today.”

That was it.

Just those two sentences.

Any thought of staying another night vanished.

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