Please refrain from opening this chapter if you are under 18 years old. Exercise discretion; this is a work of fiction with all its imaginative elements. CW: roleplay, bdsm
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I love you, but that love no longer has a place in my life. It makes me need to run, to escape, because I don't want to deal with it. And hating you… hating you is the only way I know to protect myself from that feeling I no longer want to feel.
— Emma
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"Emma, do you even hear yourself? You're saying you love me while simultaneously wanting to hate me. How do you think that makes me feel?"