"Steven, do you think a single ring can make up for everything I've been through?"
I finally spoke. My voice was so calm that even I was a little surprised.
Out of the corner of my eye, I saw the tight line of Howard's jaw relax.
Steven stared at me in shock.
"Nothing happened between Howard and me. And you and I… We're done."
A crowd of onlookers had begun to gather, and they started an ill-timed cheer.
"Marry him!"
"Marry him!"
And right in the middle of all this commotion, I shattered the public face Steven kept as a public figure.
"I don't love you anymore," I said, each word slowly, my voice ringing clear.
"I stopped loving you the moment you cheated on me. The moment you claimed I forced myself on you. The moment my face was being stepped into the ground while you were in a
