Against all odds
I felt myself shrinking, invisible in a room where I should have been the one glowing.
My world tilted, because no matter how I had dressed it, no matter how tightly I clung, I was nothing compared to what burned between them.
I wanted to turn away, but my feet stayed rooted, my stomach twisting as though I were watching a play I could not stop.
Elliott drifted closer, his steps uncertain but inevitable, like a moth fighting against every instinct yet still flying into the flame. Luca’s smile softened when their eyes met, a flicker of something private, something only the two of them could understand. It wasn’t forgiveness, not yet.
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