Chapter 163 —I Have to Go

Narrator:

Sasha stood there in the middle of the garden, her fists clenched and her eyes fixed on the darkness. She didn't understand. She couldn't understand how Eros, who was always there for her, who took care of her, who looked at her with that tenderness that sometimes took her breath away... couldn't love her the way she loved him.

A tear fell without asking permission. Then another. And another. Until she sat down on the edge of the fountain, curled up, her knees against her chest and her face buried in her arms. She cried silently. She cried because she felt stupid. For having thrown herself into it. For having believed that he could feel the same way. For not knowing how to extinguish that fire, which was new to her, unknown, and should never have been lit.

She felt that something had broken inside her. And the worst part was that, no matter how hard she tried to blame him, she couldn't. Because Eros hadn't been cruel. He had just... been honest. And