The silence that followed was suffocating. Cindy searched his face, desperate for some flicker of emotion, but there was none. Her heart shattered under the weight of his indifference. In that moment, she realized the truth: the man she had loved no longer existed, if he ever had.
She stood frozen, her mind a whirlwind of regret and disbelief. Her chest ached as the room seemed to close in around her. Peter turned away, already moving on, as if her outburst was nothing more than a trivial inconvenience. Cindy felt her world crumbling beneath her feet.