Excerpt

"Give me a chance to prove my love for you and myself." He begged her.

Her heart almost melted at his vulnerable tone of voice yet she steeled it, "I can't. I don't love you now and I won't love you in future."

Eyes full of tears, the tears of pain, helplessness, suffering and despair.

He went down on both of his knees.

"Why? Why can't you be with me? Why can't we live together until we die old? Just give me a chance, I only want one opportunity to make you fall for me as you did to me." His voice cracked due to his agonising screams.

She tried to take her hands back from his grasp. He didn't let her and tightened his grip onto her hand as if holding on for his dear life.

"BECAUSE I AM BROKEN!! MY HEART IS NOTHING BUT SCATTERED IN PIECES. MY TRUST HAVE BEEN BROKEN. LOVE IS NOTHING FOR ME. I CAN'T LOVE SOMEONE. Not even you…." Her eyes broke down into uncontrollable tears, she fell on her knees. Her eyes dejectedly looked on the ground.

She felt his muscular arms surrounding her already destroyed self. She couldn't hug him as she knew if she did she won't have the courage to leave him.

'I can't be selfish. I can't be with him. He needs someone pure not dirty and used girl like me. If today, I followed my heart's desires then I would be committing the biggest sin of my life. I can't be ungrateful to him. I need to leave him behind.'

A fire of determination burnt through her eyes.

"Let me go." She started to struggle in his arms.

"If you want to go, then hear me out for the last time." The girl stiffened. Her stomach churned with anticipation, her erratically beating heart didn't assure her. Her guts were telling that whatever he was going to say would be unbearable to hear for her.

The guy took a deep breath, his chilling breath hit her warm-blooded body.

"Whatever do you want to say can wait. Your words won't deviate my decision." The girl didn't want him to have the upper hand and thus she put her conditions as well.

"So for you, even my death is nothing worth your time." He finally uttered.

The freezing breeze blowing around them suddenly paused. The thunderous roaring of the sky became silent. Previously, drizzling dewdrops of rain also deterred.

"I knew if you decide on something, nothing can change it. However, I had this little hope in me that I could be an exception for you, in your life. I must be the biggest fool ever to actually hope for something such impossible as that. Esther, if you wish to go and leave me, I won't stop you again. But, this time, if you choose to go and leave then you won't be going alone, you will take away my life with you. If you go, I will immediately jump down this cliff. I can't imagine a life without you even in my dreams and if you think I will be able to once again survive without you, you have too high expectations for me. To put it simply, it is you and me for eternity or nothing in all..."