He stayed silent longer this time. I waited, feeling the steady beat of his heart against my back. “Yes,” he said at last. “Every day. It's just what it is. What if it doesn't. What if that happens. What if it goes this way. So, yeah..."I turned my head slightly, not enough to see his face fully, but enough to feel closer. “Me too,” I whispered. I was talking about the brand, about my own two years of building something I had not known would work, about all the fear I had carried alone for so long.He pressed his mouth to my hair in a brief, gentle kiss. “I know,” he murmured, and the words wrapped around me like warmth.We lay there together in the dark of my room, both of us carrying our own fears and our own long-built dreams, and still choosing each other right in the middle of all of it. The quiet felt full and safe.“Did you tell anyone else?” I asked after a while. “Before tonight?”“No,” he answered without hesitation.I didn't even let it sink before I asked. “Why me first?”
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