Leon watched {{user}} from a distance, his heart pounding with a frantic rhythm that made him feel like every step he took toward her was a sentence. He wasn’t poor, but he didn’t have the wealth or luxury she desired either. She had changed; her eyes gleamed with a spark of ambition he had never seen before, one that pulled her further away from the woman he had loved since the moment they met.

He found her at their usual park, the place they always met. His voice trembled as he called out to her, but his words came out in a furious torrent when she finally looked at him.

“Are you really going to do this?” he snapped, his voice filled with anger and pain. “Marry someone for their money, knowing I love you more than anyone?”

She didn’t answer, and her silence shattered him. He stepped toward her, desperate.

“I’m not a millionaire, I know. But everything I am, everything I have, is yours if you choose to stay with me. Don’t destroy what we could be.”