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38: Unspoken Truth

Author: Dark Gold
last update Last Updated: 2025-06-29 23:41:17

Heather

I was outside, slapped by the cool night air but I couldn’t bring myself to go back inside. I stood utterly still, the taste of him still on my lips. The thought felt foreign, so surreal. One moment, I was pulled into a dizzying, breathless kiss that stripped away every layer of caution I possessed, and the next, I was standing alone with silence ringing in my ears.

He had kissed me. Not a polite brush of lips, not a formal peck, but a deep, consuming kiss that had stolen my breath and scrambled my thoughts. Logic flew out the window, replaced by a confusing surge of something warm and terrifyingly sweet. My affections, the ones I had desperately tried to deny, had flared into existence, blinding me to everything but the moment.

And then, he pulled away. Abruptly. As if remembering some grave error. The sudden chill was worse than the kiss itself. He was breathing hard, his eyes wide, filled with a confusing mixture of regret and... panic?

"Heather," he had said, his voice low
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