After Ninety-Nine Times
“Mia, please give me another chance! I’ve seen Judy’s true colors. Mike and Lily chased her out of the pack. I don’t want anything else anymore, I only want you…”
I interrupted him, my tone eerily even. “I gave you 99 chances. You used up the last coupon when you made me apologize on Judy’s behalf. Leonard, I don’t love you anymore.”
“No! I don’t believe you!”
I paused, looked at his face contorted in grief, and continued, “I’m doing fine here. There’s no need for forgiveness coupons, no one to make me apologize for a mistake I didn’t commit, and no one who’d abandon me for another woman when I miscarried. I even got to taste seafood.