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

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