I looked at the woman in front of me. The woman I had loved for a whole year in silence.
I felt my heart breaking watching her pull away from me and could feel her anger radiating off her.
“Please don’t do this,” I said.
Cecilia turned around to face the windows but then glared to me. Her bright green eyes that always reminded me of emeralds were full of tears and anger.
“How can you ask that of me?” She screamed. “You knew exactly what you were signing up for when we started this. I am married. We were destined to keep our relationship a secret.”
She continued to walk away from me and I desperately wanted to reach for her, to apologize and tell her she was right.
But I couldn’t.
I would not give in.
One of us had to fight for what we had.
“I can’t walk away from us Cecilia. I cannot continue to be with you in secret, not when I know that you deserve better. That I deserve better as well!”
Cecilia ignored me, but I could see the tears running down her face.
Why was she so stubborn? Why did she try to deny her self happiness by forcing herself to live in fear because of her husband? Her hateful and cold husband?
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Cecilia Campos is a young woman who was forced into a marriage by her mother. Her husband is a cold man who merely respects her and sees her as an object. With a year of being married to him, she grew accustomed to the lack of affection and convinced herself that she was not worthy of happiness. Her husband‘s best friend Gabriel Dupont on the other hand, loved her in secret. He would do anything for her, and she didn’t know.