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Asher stopped dead in his tracks. His breath caught in his throat. Without a single second of hesitation, he spun on his heel and walked rapidly in the exact opposite direction, his long strides carrying him all the way across campus until he reached the dusty, forgotten corridors of the old administrative building. He slipped inside, looking like a man pursued by ghosts, and spent twenty agonizing minutes pretending to closely inspect laminated campus notice boards he had already memorized by heart, just to waste enough time before risking the open paths again.Days blurred into a heavy week of radio silence and strategic avoidance.Across the other side of the city, however, a very different kind of quiet intimacy was taking root.Every evening just after six o'clock, Marcus arrived at the small restaurant. He never made an announcement, never paused to check if he was welcome. He simply pushed through the swinging kitchen doors, rolled up the sleeves of his button-down shirt, and i

Asher could barely manage to stand without his vision swimming, his body growing thinner and more fragile..He knew he couldn't risk going to any clinic or hospital near the university, where a familiar face might spot him. Instead, he forced himself to travel across the city to a quiet, anonymous hospital —a place where no one would look twice at a pale, trembling student pulling his coat tightly around his waist.The diagnostic waiting room smelled sharply of antiseptic and cold steel, humming with the low murmur of distant voices.Asher sat hunched on a hard plastic chair in the corner, his fingers tightly laced together in his lap, his knuckles stark white. Every tick of the wall clock felt like a heavy hammer blow against his frayed nerves. When a nurse finally called his name in a flat, routine voice, his heart leaped violently into his throat, nearly choking him.He stood up on unsteady legs and slipped into the examination room. A quiet, middle-aged physician reviewed his char

The phone kept buzzing in Asher's hand.He wiped his face one more time, took a slow breath, and finally pressed the screen to answer. He forced his voice to sound normal before he even said a word."Hey," Asher said, trying to keep it light."Hey, finally." Ethan's voice came through warm and a little worried. "How did it go? You've been gone forever. I was starting to think you got lost or something."Asher closed his eyes for a second. "It's fine. Just took longer than I thought. Waiting rooms, you know how it is.""So what did the doctor say? Are you okay?"Asher's throat tightened. He looked down at his own hands, still slightly shaking from the cold and everything else. "Yeah," he said finally. "Just some stress. Not sleeping enough. Nothing serious."It was the first real lie he had ever told Ethan. It came out easier than he expected, and that scared him a little."See, I told you," Ethan said, relief clear in his voice. "You need to actually sleep, Ash. Not just tell people y

Asher's mind raced, searching for anything, any excuse that would make Ethan look away from him with those worried, searching eyes."I think I ate something bad," Asher said quickly, forcing a small, weak laugh. "That's probably it. Something from the dining hall yesterday. You know how that food can be sometimes."Ethan's eyes narrowed slightly, not quite convinced. "Bad food doesn't make you throw up three separate times in one week, Ash.""Maybe it's a stomach bug, then." Asher wiped his mouth again, trying to look more put together than he felt. "It's probably contagious. You should stay away from me, actually, before you catch it too.""Nice try," Ethan said, though the corner of his mouth twitched slightly, some of the tension easing just a little. "You're really going with a stomach bug?""It's a very serious stomach bug," Asher said, forcing his voice to stay light. "Very dangerous. Doctors are baffled."Ethan studied him for a long moment, clearly still unsure, clearly still

Killian turned around slowly.For one second, something flickered across his face — maybe something close to hope, like he thought Asher had called his name to take back everything he'd just said, to tell him to stay.Asher stood frozen, his own heart pounding so hard it hurt. He hadn't planned to call out. The word had just torn loose from somewhere deep inside him before his mind could stop it. Now Killian was standing there, waiting, and Asher had absolutely no idea what he actually wanted to say.Tell him, a small voice whispered inside his head. Tell him about the baby. Tell him why you've been avoiding him. Tell him the truth, right now, before he walks away forever.But another voice, louder and more frightened, crashed over the first one instantly.You can't. Not here. Not like this. Not in front of a hundred people with their phones out. Not when you still don't even know what he'll do once he finds out.Killian took a step back toward him, his eyes searching Asher's face, wa