Nineteen - NadiaIt was the finality with which he said it that finally sent me careening over the edge. I don’t want him in your life anymore. Period. It was this sense that he had any right to be telling me what I could and couldn’t do, like he owned me. And that was how he said it. Like I was a stupid child who couldn’t handle things responsibly. Who was going to mess up everything because I had the option to.
My body was shaking at this point and I thought initially it was from the anger. How dare he assume he could do something like that? That I would let him? The indignation felt good, better than anything else, but as I stood up from the corner of the bed I’d been sitting on, I had to admit to myself that I wasn’t shaking over indignation or anger.
I was shaking because I was afrai
