The Game Is Mine
"I deceived you, and you deceived me. Since we're both at fault, let's just cancel it out. As long as you don't leave, I'll treat you the same as before."
He didn't even speak a word of the damage he'd done to me, waving it off with a single sentence.
To think that I, at one point, truly fell for a man like this.
Or perhaps I'd fallen for the fictional image of him that I'd conjured in my mind.
After drifting in the System for so long, it was only natural that I clung on after finally finding a place that felt safe.
Thankfully, there was still time for me to stop. It wasn't too late.