Love Me, Loathe Me.
Mavis can see it now, the effort it takes for him to stay where he is, to not reach for her the way he once did without thinking.
“I never stopped loving you,” he says at last, the confession quiet but devastating. “I just learned how to survive without you, I moved on.”
Her breath shudders. “I didn’t move on,” she admits. “I just learned how to pretend.” That breaks something in them.
Especially as she’s still hiding the biggest truth of all from him.
Lance steps closer, close enough now that she can feel his warmth, the familiar pull of him that never truly faded. He hesitates, as if giving her one last chance to push him away, to say no, to protect them both.
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