“I have many regrets,” Emily whispered, holding Adi’s hand as he lay, unconscious, in the hospital bed. “But none as bad as the regret I have for what I did to you.”
Just days before she had broken off her relationship with him, for his sake. She thought she was doing the right thing, freeing him from the burden that she felt she was. He had been hit by a car as he drunkenly tried crossing a street. She was drowning her own misery when she received a text from his mother, who was asleep in a chair in Adi’s hospital room.
“I regret what I said, Adi.” She choked as tears rolled down her face. “I’m sorry I left you. Please, don’t leave me.”

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