Three Years and Eighteen Goodbyes
“What’s done is done. We can’t go back to what we were.
“Mr. Rutgers… we’re done here.”
I smiled as I took a step back, then opened the door and walked into my apartment.
Kit didn’t try to stop me.
But I saw him later that night, standing outside my door like a tree rooted to the ground.
He didn’t move, not when the wind blew, not even when the rain fell.
But what was the point?
For some things, once lost, they stay lost.
Over the past three years, I had given him seventeen chances.
He had let every single one slip through his fingers.