Don’t need your love.

*MALIYAH*

“Ben,I…I’ve missed you so much.”I croaked out.”I want to be with you.“

He exhaled.”Let’s not make one mistake…twice.”

“Mistake?”

“Yes.We shouldn’t have gotten together in the first place.Our marriage should have remained temporary,we shouldn’t have crossed those lines.We shouldn’t have…”

“You don’t mean that.I know you don’t.I don’t regret taking a chance on you back then,I never did.Even when I tried to convince myself that I hated you,I always wanted to go back to that time.What we had wasn’t a mistake,Ben.You know it.Please don’t punish me like this.”

“I’m not punishing you.I’m doing you a favor.”

“Then do me a favor by giving me a second chance.I know I don’t deserve one but I…I can’t bear to be apart from you anymore.”

“Maliyah,trust me,you do not want to be with me a second time.You should not want that.”He let out,exasperatedly.

“I love you,Ben.”

“I don’t need your love.”He snapped.

That stung.

“Do you not really want to be with me anymore?Do you not love me anymore?”