The echo of the front door slamming behind Amina seemed to linger in the air long after she was gone. The house felt suddenly too quiet, too empty, as if the walls themselves were holding their breath. Elias stood frozen in the kitchen, one hand still gripping the edge of the counter, his face pale and etched with a mixture of regret, fear, and raw pain.I couldn’t move. My legs felt weak, my chest tight. The guilt that had been simmering for weeks now crashed over me like a wave, drowning everything else. Amina’s tear-filled eyes, her broken voice, the way she had looked at me like I had betrayed her in the worst possible way — it all replayed in my mind on a brutal loop.Elias finally turned to me, his hazel eyes dark with emotion. He crossed the kitchen in three strides and pulled me into his arms, holding me so tightly it almost hurt. His hand stroked my back in that familiar, clingy way, but this time it felt desperate, like he was afraid I might disappear too.“She knows,” he wh
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