Ashley had no words left to defend herself with. All she could do was repeat over and over that she loved me. I only looked at her coldly, the same way she once looked at me.Then, she ripped open her shirt.My name was tattooed across her chest, right above the place where her heart beat beneath the skin.However, that heart wasn't hers. It was my mother's."Troy, do you still not believe that I love you?"I stared at the heart pulsing under her skin, and before I knew it, my hand drifted toward her chest, toward the heart that had once belonged to my mother.Just as my fingers were about to touch her, I stopped.At that moment, I wanted nothing more than to rip that heart out of her body, but I couldn't."Ashley, you're too childish, and your love is even more childish than you are. True love never stays on the surface."I lifted my right hand. It was whole, with all five fingers intact.Ashley's eyes widened in shock as she stared at my ring finger in disbelief.It was a
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