“Stop, Sabrina!” he snapped coldly.
מנויי
you
think I’ll believe you? Now I can see who you really are. Yesterday, you forgot to pick up Charlie, and now you hurt him. What would have happened if Hazel hadn’t come back? Maybe Charlie would have been abandoned!”
His statement destroyed all the defenses I had built. I felt suffocated like I had been hit repeatedly. I could only stare at Nicholas who hated me so much, leaving no trace of affection that I had never felt from him.
Tears began to fall uncontrollably. I felt like I couldn’t take it anymore. All the pain, sorrow, and humiliation that Nicholas had inflicted on me exploded, making me unable hold myself back any longer. With a hoarse voice, I screamed as lond as I could, pouring out all the wounds that I had been holding in.
Nicholas looked shocked, as if he didn’t recognize the woman standing in front of him. But I didn’t care. I grabbed the objects around me, vases, ornaments, and even our wedding photo hanging on the wall, and smashed them to the floor in despair. The sound of breaking glass filled the room, but it couldn’t ease the feeling of devastation that was inside me.
“Enough!” I screamed as loud as I could, looking at Nicholas with eyes filled with tears and anger,
“You have no idea what it’s like to be me! You have no idea the pain I have to endure every day! If you hate me so much, why don’t you just let me go?”
Nicholas looked confused, his steps stopped. I didn’t care anymore. I was tired of hoping and trying to hold on to something that never really existed. Everything we had ever built was destroyed; nothing was left but this unbearable pain.
Nicholas raised his hand as if he wanted to stop the chaos I had created.
“Wait…” he said in a trembling voice. However, his voice felt far away compared to the pounding heart that was throbbing in my chest.
I didn’t want to hear it. The words that might come from his mouth would only deepen the pain. I knew that behind his confused face, there were choices he had made that had brought me to this point. Why should I wait for an explanation that would be of no use? It was over. !
With one movement, I picked up the framed wedding photo–the one where we were smiling so widely, caught in seemingly eternal bliss. Now, the frame felt like a reminder of all the promises that were never kept. Without thinking, I threw it at the wall. The loud sound of shattering became the backdrop to the collapse of my heart and my hopes.
Nicholas tried to come closer, but I stepped back, putting some distance between us. “Stay away,” I said, my voice shaking but firm. “It’s over.”
The pain, mixed with anger, boiled through me. I remembered all the sleepless nights, all the discussions that had led to the fight, all the attempts to make things right that had never worked. Nicholas just stood there, lost in a painful silence. He didn’t seem to know what to say, and that made me even angrier.
“Do you know how much I’ve given? How many times have I tried to understand?!”
I cried, tears starting to flow without me holding them back Nicholas took a deep breath, his eyes widening as if realizing how deep this hurt was. He finally opened his mouth, but this time, it wasn’t to apologize. “I… I didn’t…”
