Bound Unwilling
But saying it out loud felt dangerous in a way she couldn’t fully explain.
Maybe if he knew, he would get worse. Maybe love in his hands would become another thing to control, another reason to tighten his grip. She just wasn’t ready to hand him that kind of power over her.
She remembered the night they came back from the hospital. The room was quiet, the news was still settling around them. Damien had sat beside her on the bed, speaking in the calmest tone she had ever heard from him. Like something had cracked in him, and he wasn’t trying to hide it.
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