Chapter 12

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Tristan threw the remote control across the room as he stared at the television screen in rage. His parents were on the television screen, announcing his engagement with another girl from another large corporation.

They've tried bribing me with money, they've been trying to have some men come and take me away, but nothing has been working.

I just loved him too much to separate from him, but looking at his broken, dishevelled self on my couch, staring at the television screen, I couldn't help but feel that it was time to end this childish game once and for all.

We would just never work out.

He hasn't been feeling too well either, because I was now struggling to support two people with my small wage from the restaurant, and his parents had barred anyone from hiring him. I was lucky that I wasn't fired because of their influence.

He felt useless, I knew. He felt like he couldn't do anything now that he wasn't the heir to the company anymore technically, and it was killing him on the inside, because that was what he had been working towards for his whole entire life.

So when he grabbed his jacket after watching the broadcast, wanting to go out, offering for me to go with him, I declined. As I watched his fading figure going down the street, I called his parents, my hands quivering and quaking, tears pooling down my cheeks knowing that I was going to hurt him so much. But it was for the best…

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