Not Enough

MADDIE

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I stared at him, waiting for him to take it back.

He didn't.

Everything I'd let myself believe over the last few minutes... the hope, the warmth, the stupid, fragile belief that maybe things had changed… all of it.

Gone.

In four words.

He still couldn't give me more.

My eyes burned.

He cleared some of my hair off my face.