The system told me this body couldn’t handle the “Perfect Partner” program anymore.[]
So it automatically deactivated.[]
Which basically means. I don’t have much time left.]
I’m getting weaker every day.]
Ethan sees it-[]
And it’s tearing him up inside.[]
He stopped going to the office.]
He stays by my bedside every single day.[]
His mother doesn’t care.[]
She barged in like a hurricane and pointed right at me, calling me a homewrecker.[]
Said I was some femme fatale ruining her precious son’s life.[]
But looking like this?
I couldn’t ruin a paper bag if I tried.[]
Some nights the pain gets so bad, it jolts me awake.
I’d see Ethan passed out in the chair beside me.[]
And for a second, I’d feel like we were back in the good old days.[]
Back when he still loved me.[]
But the betrayal was rea
And so was the disappointment.[]
After a while, I couldn’t even tell what was real and what wasn’t anymore.[]
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If he truly loved me-
Then why whisper all those sweet nothings to Sophia?
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Why treat her like he used to treat me?
But if he never loved me…]
Then why is he clinging to my hand now like I’m the only thing that matters?[]
On day thirty of my illness,
Sophia somehow slipped past security and stormed in.[]
She didn’t look anything like I remembered.]
She looked like a willed flower-
Fragile, broken, and wild in the eyes.]]
She cried out Ethan’s name, screaming.]
Begging to know how he could be so cold to her.
But Ethan just stood there, stone–faced.
And told the guards to get her out
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Sophia turned toward me on the bed and let out a crazed laugh.]
“Ethan, I can’t believe I ever thought you loved me.”
“Turns out you’re the coldest bastard of all.“[]
“You break hearts like it means nothing.”
“You won’t get away with it. Not in this life.”
The guards dragged her off,
But her voice-
That awful laugh-
Hung in the air like smoke that wouldn’t clear.[]
I lay there half–awake, watching Ethan’s blank expression.
And for the first time.
He scared me.
When he loves you, he’ll put the whole world at your feet.
But when he doesn’t?]
He’ll burn that world to the ground-
And leave you in the ashes.]
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