What do you do when your heart yearns for something your mind can't embrace? How do you tame the feelings that keep surfacing for someone special, knowing you're committed to another?
Ana Rose embarks on a new journey as a secret agent. Although she...
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I find myself on the bench, watching them share smiles as they hand out those envelopes right in front of me. She doesn't even spare me a glance, and it feels like the very earth is crumbling beneath my feet. Time freezes, and my heart shatters into a million pieces. Ana, please... I'm begging you—don't do this to me again. Don't leave me in the shadows, I need you now more than ever to keep your promise...
I silently beg her to act, desperately waiting for her to speak up and reveal the truth about me to everyone around us. I'm screaming internally; my thoughts are racing with so much to say, yet I can't utter a word. It feels like a bad joke to me—or at least that's what I keep telling myself to cope with it. Maybe you want to make things right, saying you were trying to make me laugh, so nothing has to change today? Because I love you...
But she is not joking... The cold metal of the bench bites into my palms as I grip it tightly, feeling my knuckles whiten with the pressure. With every second that passes, the bitter realization sinks in—her words were nothing but lies. What are you doing, Ana? How could I've been so blind?
Every time she offers that smile, feigning ignorance of my pain, another piece of me shatters silently within. With each passing moment, the undeniable truth becomes clearer: it's time for me to let go. I find myself yearning, for the first time, for her to completely tear me apart right here and now, just so I can free myself from the chains that bind me to her and gather the strength to walk away.
So Ana... go ahead and shatter me, please shatter my heart, shatter my mind and my body... I gave you the freedom to do anything you wanted with me, even if it meant hurting myself... this is how much I loved you...
Tear apart my clothes and my body with your gaze, knock me to the ground, whisper sweet lies of love once more, rip my heart entirely—don't leave anything inside of it, please... Kill all my feelings with your bitter poison, break the knot that bound us, tear open my wounds, and grant them the time to heal, shatter my memories into a million fragments, so that when I leave, there will be nothing left to feel...
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