THE BODYGUARD’S HIDDEN TRUTH
“I learned the truth about what happened to you. It wasn’t simple tragedy, the way we all believed for so long. It was cowardice, and cruelty, and a system built by people who valued money over your life. I know that doesn’t bring you back. I hope, somehow, it means something anyway, that we finally know.”
I felt tears gathering, watching him work through fifteen years of grief with a rawness I’d rarely witnessed from him. “And I fell in love,” he continued, his voice softening. “With someone braver than I ever expected to find, someone who’s taught me that trust and hope are worth choosing, even when everything in this world has tried to teach us otherwise.” He looked at me, something achin