metallic taste of betrayal placed at the tip of my tongue. My words felt hollow, swallowed by the endless void of silenc
His silence was infuriating me. "Answer me, Nate," I demanded, my voice cracking under the weight of my
e in the world. The arrogance in his posture made my skin crawl. Meanwhile, I'm left ranting like a ma
My voice is barely above a whisper, but it carries the wei
nment for him. "And what exactly do you want me to say?" he finally speak
rward, but that's when I finally gain a reaction from him. H
on't you dare." His voice is low, almos
k, my voice laced with bitterness. "Protect myself? Fight for what's mine?" I
as if I was looking into the eyes of a stranger. He looks down on me due t
, my Nathaniel. I struggle to maintain my composure. My breath came in shallow, ragged gas
t cut through the room like shards of glass. "Oh, look at you
t before my eyes. My Nate doing nothing to defend me, the woman h
about my day, the way you stopped looking at me like I was the only girl that mattered in the
I should've known. I thought maybe I was being too sensitive. But never, n
e never wanted you here, don't you get it through your thick, shallow skull? YOU ARE NOTHING." Her word
u got me, cut!!" I am delusional enough to believe this was a prank. I scan the room desperately, sea
burden from the start. Annoying, whiny, and always in the way. You think
yes whenever I tried to reach out, the annoyance in his voice when I spoke. I had suspected an affair, but never in my darkest fears ha
like a suffocating blanket thrown over me. I was nothing more than a p
ripping with hatred. "You're nothing,