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ked away. The divorce papers were on the table between us, clean like there was never part of something once called love. Alessio didn't even say a word to me. He just pushe

Leah," he said, with no em

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more. I didn't shed a tear. I couldn't. I had exhausted all my tears long ago, during the nights he arrived home late, on mornings when he looked at me as if I were not important

k for this,"

he said

something inside me was breaking. Three

I didn't look at him. If I did, I might fall apart again, but as I turned to

of thinking this means

king. The way he spoke, quiet and sure, cu

g, but it felt like his words were still tearing at me. Each step felt like I was leaving a part of myself

the nothingness. He left me. Just like that, and the world didn't stop for my pain. My knees gave out as I reached the curb.

away, like

aring at the cracks in the pavement, wondering if I had become one of them,