Front Page Betrayal

~BECKETT~

I should have left when she told me to get out.

Instead I stayed. Every time I shifted toward the exit, another broken sound came out of her and held me there.

She had a right to the anger. She had a right to hate me. After all the years she'd given to me, this was definitely not the life she deserved.

Leaving while she was still in emotional distress felt like one more act of cowardice