Chapter 104 — The Words I Couldn't Say
I'd been holding the words in for days.
Not because I didn't want to tell him, but because I didn't know how.
Every morning, I woke up with the thought pressing against my ribs like something small but persistent trying to break free. Tell him. He deserves to know. He should be the first to know.
But then I'd see his face. Calm. Collected. Always a little too tired lately, his phone constantly ringing, his gaze occasionally distant, as if a shadow followed him everywhere.
So, I waited. I waited for the right moment, the right tone, the right breath between us.
The problem was Lucian's life never left space for stillness anymore.
