Me, After You: Sekar
"I think I want to pull out."
The room went still.
Not shocked. Still. The stillness of six women who had promised, in advance, not to talk someone out of her own truth.
"Tell us," Rosa said. Just that.
"It's not that he's doing anything wrong." Karin's voice was even, which was worse than if it had shaken. "It's that he's doing everything right, and I hate what it's showing me." She pulled in a breath. "You all know what I am. I built a whole life out of controlling the frame. What people see, when they see it, from what angle. It's not vanity, it's — armor. I decide what's visible. That's the one power nobody's ever taken from me."