Not yours to reject
Gemma Writes you will regret rejecting meafter your rejectiontake my rejection backrejected by friend
"I'm not asking you to accept it right now. I'm asking you not to run from it before you've even looked at it straight on."
"And if I look at it and I still want to leave?"
"Then you leave." No hesitation. No manipulation dressed up as concern. "That's your right. I'm not going to be the second man in two days who decides things about your life without asking you first."
That lands harder than I expect it to. I study him, this stranger with the flat voice and the careful eyes, and I hate that some small, exhausted part of me believes him.
"Say it," I tell him. "If you're so sure. Say what you think this is."