You're Not The One Mga Nobela at Kwento

Pausing, I looked up at him and asked, "By myself? You're not coming with me?" Isaac sighed lamentably and said, "I've got too much on my plate at work right now. I can't leave. I'll join you next time, okay?" Well, there wasn't going to be a next time, Isaac. Bending down, I continued to bandage his hand while saying, "I might not be able to take leave from work." "Don't worry about that. I'll handle it for you."

“He’ll be fine, right? Danny always pulls through. He’s like a cockroach. Unkillable.” “Shut up, James,” she snapped. Silence settled between them, thick and tense. Cybil pinched the bridge of her nose. She couldn’t deal with him, not now. Not while her world was hanging by a thread in the operating theatre. Without another word, she stepped out of the waiting room and pulled her phone from her handbag. Her hands trembled as she scrolled to a number she hadn’t called in months. Philip Trenton – Family Solicitor. She pressed “Call.”

"After everything I did, you don't feel anything? Do you just not love me anymore?" I looked at him as he unraveled in front of me and gently wiped away the tear at the corner of his eye. My voice was as soft as always. "Don't do this, Caspian. I just think that if you like her, I can step aside. I'll do anything as long as you're happy."

“I’m reminding you who you are.” I took a step closer. “I know exactly who I am,” I said. “That’s the problem. You’re the only one who doesn’t.”