What Her Future Wrote Back
They would've bled me dry of every last bit of value, and then, in the middle of some grand, humiliating spectacle, I would've lived out a miserable existence.
How terrifying.
Until that moment, the armor I'd been clinging to finally shattered. The tears came—silent, unstoppable.
Memories surged through my mind like a tidal wave, and every detail I'd once willfully ignored now turned into a knife aimed straight at my heart.
The way Liam looked at Mia—so focused, so intent. The way he came alive around her, so vivid and real.
And I'd been the fool, standing by and watching, interrupting, over and over again—right up until today, when I found them tangled together, naked and gasping.