The CEO's Regret: Darling, Don’t Leave Me novel Chapter 180

Chapter 129–MA

To protect myself, not to take risks, but then I open my eyes. And I force myself to stay here.

In the present.

Not in what was, not in what hurt. In what it is.

Ethan isn’t the same, and neither am I.

I sit up a little on the bed, resting my hands at my sides.

“It’s okay,” I murmured.

My voice is low, but firm.

“It’s okay if it doesn’t work.”

I repeat, this time more consciously. More clearly.

“I’ll simply… leave.”

The idea doesn’t hurt, it doesn’t weigh me down. It’s… liberating.

“If I don’t like something… I’ll walk away.”

I nod slightly to myself, because now I do have that. That option, that freedom.

That version of me that I didn’t have before. I am no longer the woman who stays out of fear.

Not out of habit.

Not even out of misunderstood love, I am the woman who chooses. Even leave.

I exhale calmer, more centered. I look at the suitcase again. And this time…

It doesn’t feel the same, not like an irreversible decision. But as a test.

One step, nothing more.

I get out of bed, I pick up my clothes again. And I keep packing. But now… without that weight on my

chest.

Because I’m not going back to the same thing, I’m going to see… if this can be different.

And if it is not… I am. And that… it changes everything.

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