Jerome had stood there in the freezing night, his heart bleeding out, forced to make a harrowing choice: protect my fragile mind with more woven half-truths, or risk losing me forever to the void of full amnesia.The heavy wooden door of the cabin clicked shut behind us, cutting off the faint sounds of the campsite and wrapping us in absolute, heavy silence.I turned around, my back pressing against the cool wood of the entry door, my chest heaving as I looked at him. "We're in your cabin, Jerome. No Julie. No students. Just us. Tell me about the gala. Tell me why we didn't stay together after that night. Tell me why—""Alexa," he choked out, stepping into my space before I could finish the sentence.The air in the room evaporated. He looked at me with an agonizing mixture of overwhelming guilt, profound adoration,and a desperate, burning hunger."You want to know why?" he whispered, his voice trembling as his warm hands came up to frame my face, his thumbs gently brushing over my che
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