Beside the phone.
But when he finally realized what
his choices had cost us, I had already made mine.
I didn’t leave because I stopped loving my daughter.
I left because I loved her enough to want a life that honored everything she had taught me.
To notice the little things.
To keep promises.
To treasure ordinary afternoons.
And never to make someone who loves you feel like they come second.
Dominic lost the family he had taken for granted.
I lost something neither of us could ever replace.
But I refused to lose myself too.
And when I finally said goodbye, I wasn’t running away from the past.
