Broken by One, Desired by All
"That easy for you? That simple?"
Was I truly so forgettable? So replaceable?
My gaze dropped to the ground, but it didn't help. The cobblestones blurred beneath my vision, my thoughts spiraling faster, darker, pulling me down into a vortex of anger and something else, something that felt dangerously close to grief.
"You don't just get to do that, Zane," I said quietly, my voice steady despite the storm brewing beneath it. "You don't just… erase me. Pretend we never happened."