Assassin

“But how could you Emma?” he whispered placing his hands over his face.

How could I? I honestly didn’t even know anymore. I had betrayed his trust and shattered the happiness within his soul. My heart ached with regret, guilt, sadness. As I struggled to find something, anything at all to say, he began again.

“I trusted you with my entire being! I thought that I-I-I-I loved you and that you loved me, too.”

His words shook me to the core. He loved me! But I have destroyed that love.

I would have never taken the job if I had known what havoc it would wreak on both of our hearts.