Chapter 8
Chapter 8
Caspian cried until he lost his voice.
He clung to me, refusing to accept the breakup, insisting he’d come with me.
In the end, I gave in.
So I agreed.
He held me tight. like he’d just gotten back something he thought he’d lost forever.
I let myself sink into the hug, knowing it would be the last one.
A few days later, early in the morning. I packed my bags quietly.
Left the divorce papers on the table.
I stood in the doorway, looked back at him one last time.
He was still asleep.
I whispered, “Goodbye.”
Then I took one last look at the apartment.
I was leaving for good.
I called a cab and went to the airport alone.
Sitting in the terminal, waiting to board, my phone kept buzzing.
Messages from Caspian.
“Where are you?”
Why aren’t you answering me?”
I’m at the airport. Where are you? I need to see you.”
I stared at the screen and felt my eyes sting.
But I didn’t reply.
I didn’t have the courage to see him again.
After all, he was the man I once loved with everything I had.
The notifications kept coming. I ignored every one.
1 let out a slow breath and walked toward the gate.
Thessaly! Please-I can’t do this without you!”
His voice was raw. Desperate. Like he was using every ounce of strength he had left.
I froze, but I didn’t turn around.
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I stepped forward, handed over my boarding pass, and walked through.
Before switching my phone off, I glanced at his final message.
Thessaly Whitmore. You lied to me.”
1 smiled butterly, typed back:
You lied to me so many times. Guess it was my turn.
All those times he’d told me he was just hanging out with friends. That Isolde wouldn’t be there.
And every time, I found out the truth.
I still remembered how much it hurt.
I wondered if he felt that now too.
When I landed. someone from the Bolshoi Ballet picked me up.
They set me up in a small apartment.
It wasn’t big. But it had everything I needed.
I never replied to Caspian again and blocked him.
There was no point keeping a door open to someone who would no longer be part of my life.
A year passed.
I gradually adjusted to life in Russia and made new friends.
I’d achieved my childhood dream.
But my adult dream?
The one where I got to build a life with Caspian?
That one was gone.
One day at work, my phone rang. Unknown number. International.
I knew it was him.
I answered anyway.
He was crying so hard he could barely breathe.
It’s not two or three years, is it? You lied again, didn’t you?”
I paused, then said calmly.
Yeah. I’m not coming back. Don’t call me again, Caspian.”
I hung up.
And with that I cut the last thread connecting us.
1 looked out at the skyline.
hapter &
rom now on, Caspian and I became two parallel lines.
lever meant to cross again.
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