The moment Elise spilled those painful words to Rygan, forcing him to believe she felt nothing anymore, she hadn’t expected him to agree so easily. Something in her felt like it was breaking into small pieces. ‘You agreed to this? Letting me go? Are we doing this? Was this over?’ She thought. A part of her hated that he wasn’t fighting her words; she always did and finally heeded them. It hurt more than it should have to see he was giving up, but the moment she left him by the woods and he didn’t reach out for her, that was the moment she knew it was over. But what changed? She couldn’t even blame him when she begged for it, pleaded for her to be free of him, and he gave it this time so willingly, but why did she feel like her heart had just been ripped out? The moment she slammed the