CAMILLE The words hung in the air between us like a death sentence. *It's over, Camille. Let's end this.* I stared at him, waiting for him to take it back, to say he didn't mean it, to do something, anything that would make this some joke. But he just stood there, his jaw tight, his eyes hard in a way I'd never seen before. "You should go," he said quietly. Those three words broke something inside me, not my heart, that was already shattered, something deeper, something I didn't even know could break. I wanted to scream, I wanted to fall to my knees and beg him to reconsider, I wanted to demand answers, to ask him how he could throw away everything, everything we knew we felt for each other, maybe not love but there was this powerful attraction between us. But I didn't do any of those things. Instead, I nodded, just a small movement of my head, like a puppet whose strings had been cut. "Okay," I whispered. I turned toward the door, my legs moving on autopilot, ea
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