Ethan:

I couldn’t believe what I had just heard. Karina, the woman I had spent the past few years molding and shaping, telling me that she was done with me? That she was running away from everything we built together? It felt like the earth had been yanked out from under me, and I was falling fast into a bottomless pit.

I stared at her, unable to comprehend the finality in her words. She wasn’t just angry, wasn’t just throwing a tantrum. She meant it.

“You’ll come ...