*Olivia*

If you love something, let them go.

That’s what my mom always said. I always thought it was just a funny saying with not any real meaning to it, until this very moment.

Giovani’s eyes bore through me, as he tried to convince me to stay with him, that he really did love me. I had just told him I was leaving, and he wasn’t going to beg to keep me, but it was clear from his expression he wanted to do just that.

I stood limply in the ...