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Chapter 362 - Chapter 362: Holding On, Letting Go

~Zayn's POV~

"I know I don't deserve your time, much less your forgiveness, but I needed you to know this: every single day I was gone, a part of me knew I had made the worst mistake of my life."

Tears pricked my eyes as I looked at the man who had once been an untouchable giant in my mind, now reduced to a vulnerable patient begging for a moment of grace. The most painful part was the suffocation of it all, I wanted to scream, I wanted to let out the decade of poison rotting inside me, but I couldn't. How do you rage at a man who is already broken? How do you punish someone who is already being hollowed out by sickness?

I stood there, my nails digging into my palms, watching him apologize. He pleaded for my mercy with every shaky breath, his eyes searching mine for a flicker of the boy he used to know. I gave him nothing. I stayed silent, my throat tight with a knot of unspoken fury and grief that I couldn't untangle.

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