Thank you, Christos. [ she offers him a small smile, because that really means a lot, but she's not really in the smiling mood, at the moment ] I want to believe that, and now's the time I truly need to focus on staying strong, and not allowing my insecurities to get the best of me, again.

I believe he felt - or still does feel - some sort of entitlement to me because he's the only person I've ever been with... romantically, a fact I only shared with him to emphasize the trust I had placed in him, and instead he chose to interpret it as a matter of some perverse privilege.