Relief

 From Forbidden Obsession

"I can't do this anymore," she says with a sigh.

"I've given you everything. I kept hoping I could

convince you that I was worth it, worth more than

'just talking,' but I can't."

She looks him in the eye, her gaze a mixture of

tears and steel.

"I told myself that you'd come around, but you

haven't. And deep down, I knew that you 

wouldn't, but I kept trying. I thought that it would

be too hard to give up on you."

She takes a deep breath.

"But here I am, giving up on you. And honestly,

it's more of a relief than anything. So now I'm

going to walk away. And I'm not going to look

back, but I know you're going to regret it, even if

it's just for a moment."

~excerpt from a story I will never write