After I Stopped Loving Him

The day I confessed my feelings to Ethan Shaw.

I saw a few more shades of cruelty in his eyes.

He made it public and humiliated me.

He pinched my face and said to me, “You and that mother of yours really are the same kind of disgusting.”

When I finally made up my mind to stop liking him, he begged me like a madman to like him again.

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“Say it. Why did you call me here?” Ethan Shaw blew out a smoke ring and glanced at me impatiently.

I kept my head down and hesitated for a while before looking up at him and saying, “Ethan, I... I like you.”