my girlfriend's Dad
Curiosity came first — and with it, a quiet, surgical kind of fear.
She typed her father’s name into a search bar. Not because she thought she’d find anything — Damian kept his life clean on paper — but because the itch of a secret begged to be scratched. She skimmed company websites, charity write-ups, conference photos. Normal. All normal.
She looked up when she felt eyes on her.
Eli stood in the doorway, hair damp from the shower, wearing the T-shirt she liked best on him. He looked, for all the world, like her boyfriend. But now she saw the tension in his jaw like a watermark — something only visible if you tilted the light just right.
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