My Enemy [BL]
"I just... I didn’t even question it. I walked out there like an idiot, Frank. Like everything was fine and normal."
His chair scraped softly against the floor as he shifted, and when I finally looked up, he was tight with anger and something resembling pain.
"Atlas," he said firmly, leaning forward. "You are not stupid or an idiot. Don’t ever say that."
I shook my head, blinking hard. "I am, though. I should’ve known better. Things like this don’t happen to smart people, right? If I’d just paused for a moment and thought—"
Things like this don’t happen to smart people twice, right?