A Hundred Million Mistake
He’d frantically found some medicine to put on the wound, torn strips from his own clothes to bandage me, so incredibly gentle.
I turned, looking for a place to lie down, and saw the discarded mug in the corner.
Eric had bought it for me after seeing me admiring it in a shop window. He’d said I wouldn’t have to drink cheap, awful instant coffee anymore.
Now the mug was as broken as the warm words he’d spoken, covered in dust, useless.
Just like our brief warmth had been crushed by reality, leaving no trace behind.
My eyes burned, but no tears came. My heart was numb, like a block of ice.
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