Veil of Secrets
The words shouldn’t have landed the way they did. Soft. Heavy. Real. They hung in the air between us, turning on themselves like smoke, curling around ribs that had never quite righted themselves the way they should. Evelina stood there like she hadn’t just handed me a weapon, because that was what a secret was. One left unfiled. Unclaimed. Undefined.
One no one else could take from her.
I should’ve told her to leave. Right then. Should’ve said what I had to say to push her away for good. But instead, I asked, “Do you want to?”
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