"Just please give me one more chance ", Vincenzo said holding Anna's hands.
He had not broken her.
She wondered why she wasn't gentle with her heart. Why did she have to make herself go through all she had made herself go through with him?
It wasn't her fault though. You sometimes accept what you think you deserve.
She thought that with time he would realize how she was good and deserved so much more and maybe that was the highest mistake that she had made.
No man would realize how good of a person you were and change for you. A man who made you go through hell wouldn't suddenly treat you like an angel
He knew that she loved him no matter what he did. That no matter how many times he made her cry she was still going to love him.
Maybe the hardest thing that Anna had ever tried to do was to stop loving Vincenzo.
She had thought he was the one for her. The days that he made her happy she was really happy.
Maybe she had a trauma bond with him and couldn't leave. The days that he showed her life were so good.
From then on he treated her like she was a plague and she was left waiting. Waiting for the good days. Waiting for him to live her again. For him to make her smile and the day could reach and she would be the happiest woman ever.
She was an angel when he met her but slowly he was turning her into something else.
The angel she had been before was so bruised. She was so bruised to the point she didn't see a reason why she had been an angel.
She had gotten hurt no matter how good she was. She wanted to turn into something else. Something that people could not dare to hurt.
She finally felt strong enough to leave. She knew it was going to be hard but she did not care.
She wanted the life that came with life, the one she had been begging She did not care if she was to go where the demons went but she had to get everything that she wanted.
She was going to survive. Sometimes you had to go through so many things to learn.
There was no way she was going to let him drag her back out again.
She was not going to let herself go through it all over again. She had mastered so much strength that she could leave.
She knew what she wanted and it was not Vincenzo sadly.
"Am sorry but I can't let you have it like that again. I can't let you have that much control over me again. was a mess with you and unhappy with you. That is not something that I want. I want happiness and love ", Anna said as she pulled her hand away.
"I can give you that. I can make you happy ", Vincenzo said and Anna could detect the change in his tone as if he was begging her.
Oh, how she had wanted to hear that months before. That was something he was supposed to do not say but he had been slow.
"Well you can do it now but I don't want it anymore ", Anna said standing firm on her decision.
"You've just said that all you want is to be happy and am offering you that then why don't you want it ?", he asked her his voice rising.
"I don't want it from you. You're only acting like this cause am going to leave you. I've told you many times already I don't want anything with you what font do you understand?", she asked him getting pissed by his annoying behavior.
"What I don't understand is how you can love someone today and not love them tomorrow ", Vincenzo said standing up.
"Who said I don't love you ?", Anna said and she could see the pain in Vincenzo's eyes.
She was leaving him and what was worse was the fact that she still loved him.
It did not matter how she felt for him she was finally choosing herself. The love she had for him was not enough for her to stay and endure pain again.
She loved him how could she not? She was doing to love him forever. He had taught her so much but they had been wrong and it never worked with them.
She was not in love with him though. She was no longer a child who lived alone more than she loved herself.
She was a woman now.
She was winning a war that had been raging inside her. The war between her ego and her heart. She was finally winning for herself.
She was choosing herself. It was either Vincenzo or herself and she was the one who had won at last.
Because for once in her life it was all about her. Everything she did was for herself.
"I love you I Wil never stop loving you but that doesn't mean am in love with you. You can't choose me so am going to do it for you. Am choosing myself and I will give myself everything that you couldn't give me ", she said in a sad voice.
That was not how she had wanted things to end but that was where they were.
That was what hurt him the most. He opened his mouth to talk but couldn't. There were no words.
He had never thought that he had hurt her so much. She did not want anything to do with him and he couldn't even blame her.
She looked at peace with her decision and he was not going to force her to give her another chance.
He had messed up and there was nothing he was going to do that would make things between them to be okay.
Things between them had never been good even from the beginning.
He had to let her go. He had to let her go be happy and do whatever she wanted even if it meant he was going to be hurt in the process.
It was at that moment that he realized he had loved her a lot He had loved her so much that he had done everything he could to make her think otherwise.
It was his mistake that he had lost her.