My Professor's Dirty Little Secret
I left immediately, sobbing through the streets, the weight of what I had done settling in my chest.
The following years were an obedience I hated but endured. Evan demanded control over my choices, no forbidding marriage, but in return, I remained under his roof, under his thumb. Every day was a battle for autonomy, and every night, I went to sleep dreaming of freedom that seemed impossibly far away. And yet, even in that suffocating, controlled existence, I never stopped loving Dalton.
When Evan finally died, I praised the heavens. Freedom, at last. I could explain everything to him without fear of retaliation from Evan. We could finally be happy.