45. Fissures

Slowly she took the ring off of her finger and handed it to Finn.  

He tried not to take it, begging her to reconsider her actions.  He felt like a knife stabbed him in the heart and thought that this was worse than any beating that he had ever experienced.

"Lili, please.  We can't run away from things when we are hurt.  That isn't how relationships work."

"I have spent three years in an abusive relationship and I cannot start a new one, especially marrying you, when we are in a relationship based on lies." 

"I didn't lie to you about that night.  It was Drake who saw it.  I blacked out from all of the drugs.  I didn't know that happended until he said it.  How was I supposed to tell you something I couldn't remember?"

"I doesn't matter.  You are a liar and a manipulator and I should never have gotten in a relationship with you."

She was sobbing uncontrollably as she didn't really