[ CW ] Write a story that begins with `` I should n't have said [ yes/no ] to [ him/her . ] ''

I should n't have said no to her. 
 
 As she laid weakly in her bed, she smiled at me, and I found myself smiling back through the tears. 
 
 But I should have said yes. I should have kissed her on the forehead and told her yes. But I lied to spare her fragile heart. 
 
 She knew I was violent, unforgiving. She knew that I'm lost on my own. She had such hope for me, my lovely Rose, but deep down, she must have known that I hid a vicious monster. 
 
 And Rose... She was so kind. So confident and proud. She was love. She was so beautiful, even in those final moments, when the trauma saw her slowly slip into the embracing darkness. 
 
 Even in her last moments, she hoped that I could let it go. But I could n't. I ca n't. 
 
 That man hurt my Rose. Hit her with 2 tons of moving steel. Left her broken and alone for a lifetime on that dark street. And there he sat, behind a wooden fence, in a suit, trying to talk his way out of it. 
 
 He does n't deserve to talk. He does n't deserve to hope. 
 
 So as I pulled out my snub-nose from my jacket, pointed it directly at the man's face, I did n't feel anything. No fear, no regret, not even a change in breath. Only one thing came to mind: 
 
 `` Yes, I will hurt that man.'' 
 
 But I told her no to spare her fragile heart.
