Their gaze remained unwavering for a few seconds before she leaned towards him and brushed her lips against his own with a heavy feeling in her chest. “Then let’s not say goodbye just yet. We can still have right now for ourselves as one final gift.”

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She was leaving him.

This was really going to be their goodbye, wasn’t it? Marc didn’t want to believe that something like this was happening. He had honestly prayed that it wouldn’t and yet she was prepared to let him go like this.

“I’m sorry,” she choked out with a sob. “I don’t want to be without you either, but I can’t be away from you anymore than we already are. It feels selfish of me to want to have you with me all the time when you’re supposed to be with everyone else in your life.”

She pulled back away from him, tears shining bright trails down her cheeks as she looked at him in the eye. “I think I’m in love with you, Marc, but we should end it here before those thoughts become too much and then I can’t let go.” Naomi leaned forward, planting a kiss on his forehead before climbing off of him and to her feet. She glanced at the window next to them with a tired expression.

“It’s late. You can stay the night and head out in the morning. I’m going to bed so if you want the couch, that’s fine.”

Before he could say anything, she walked into her bedroom and shut the door, the click of the lock on her door resonating through the apartment, shattering his heart as well as any hope he still held of keeping them together.