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Chapter 37 | Time to Leave
It felt like my whole world was falling to pieces and everything was spinning out of control. Marcus and I sucked at arguments, and there was no end to them.
"You are just stretching the truth by a whole damn mile!" He said.
"Because she's always going to be in your life, Marcus! I will never have this feeling of contentment that you are mine. I am all yours, but you aren't."
"I am all yours too! But I can't just push her away. It's not the right thing to do."
"So it's okay to put me under this feeling of constant insecurity that you might cheat on me at some point? Be the father to her kids? Be on her side when she needs you? You married me while you were already married to her. How much of the right thing was that?"
"I never planned to marry you. It was---"
"But you did! And that's the point I am trying to make. You are telling me that you will never cheat on me, but then you will come back with 'It just happened' kind of an explanation."<
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