She was never his to own
Like the years of waiting, of wanting, of being invisible had finally, impossibly, caught up with her.
"You don't know," Vanessa whispered. "You don't know what it's like to be nothing. To be invisible. To love someone so much you'd do anything, be anything, and they never even see you."
Elena held her wrists. Her arms were burning. But she didn't let go.