Goodbye, I’m Leaving You Behind

Damien and I were meant to be. Engaged at birth, inseparable, our lives entwined like a single thread. Then the fire came—and with it, her. Ariana. She saved him, and slowly, everything I believed was mine slipped away into her hands.

“I’ll get you another one, Celeste,” he whispered once, passing me the house we had chosen together. “Just wait a little longer.”

And wait I did. Years went by as I watched him give her everything—every gift, every dream we had once shared. Every time, he promised he would make it right. But the debt never ended.