Chapter 198: Murky

Charlotte I had only watched a breakup once or twice in my life. It was during one of those moments when I’d be cleaning the dining table or pretending to clean it while actually watching the drama mom was engrossed in. The scene had stuck with me—a lady looking into the man's eyes, tears streaming down her face. "I have to let you go," she said. "I’m not the kind of woman you think I am, and I know the kind of woman you want me to be, but I do love you. I love you so much I wanted to become that woman, but the truth is I can’t. Deep down inside, I want to be yours, but my soul, my body, everything within me will not allow me to be yours. And you know this. You cannot bend me to your will as much as I can bend to a will, but I know it was not mine inherently. And so I’m letting you go. Be with someone happy." Somehow, those lines had become ingrained in my memory, along with the way the man cried. I wished it were as easy as that—Damian would push me away, shatter my mind, destroy