Until I Wrote Him
Sharp, floral, expensive ,the kind that carried both warmth and warning.
It clung to the velvet booth like the memory of her voice.
“Cept you’re not,” she’d said.
Soft.
Calm.
Surgical.
Three words.
And yet, they sliced through me like a blade.
She hadn’t even blinked after saying it. No hesitation.
No attempt to soften the blow.
Just truth, stripped of empathy, dressed in poise.
A woman who could make cruelty sound like a diagnosis.
I leaned back, running a hand down my face.