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"It's too late, Liz," he said, backing away from me. "There's no coming back from this."
"I love you!" I screamed after him. "You're my best friend! How am I supposed to be without you?"
"Maybe you should have thought about that" was all Hugh replied before he turned around and walked away.

"This is over" Hugh repeated, voice cracking as he sucked in a shaky breath. "You can stay in my house tonight, and I'll stay with Gibs, but you need to be gone in the morning." He sucked in a trembling breath and roughly wiped his tears away. "And you need to delete my number from your phone."

"You're going to come out of this." Sniffling, Hugh turned his head away and used his shoulder to wipe his check. "And when you do, you're going to hate yourself as much as I wish I could hate you."

"I'm not trying to," I sobbed uncontrollably. "I just...I fuck everything up."
"I thought I knew who you were," he whispered brokenly. "I thought I was what you wanted. A tear rolled down his cheek. "I was wrong."😭

"You can't keep doing this to me," he cried hoarsely, battling to capture my hands that were touching him everywhere. "Liz, you're fucking killing me."

"Yeah, see the difference between us, Liz, is that I could never be intimate with anyone other than you," he strangled out, trembling. "Drunk or not, I could never give myself to some randomer like you just did."

"Yeah? Well, newsflash, Liz, it's not all about how you feel, Hugh shot back, chest heaving. "I was in the relationship, too, and I wasn't fucking ready for sex, okay? I gave you nine fucking years of my life, and you fuck a randomer in my bed?"

"You don't know the meaning of the word." He seethed, chest heaving. "I loved you, Liz. Me." He slapped a hand against his chest. "I fucking loved you enough to put you first. Even when it was hard to do the right thing. I fucking did it. Because that's what someone does when they love someone. They put that person first."

"You fucked him, Liz!" he roared, losing his cool. "Pierce O'Neill! My own goddamn teammate! You fucked him. So don't stand here and tell me you love me.”
"I do love you, Hugh!"