The knock on the office door echoed through the room.
Neither of us moved.
For one impossible moment, it felt as though the rest of the world had disappeared.
Only Ethan and I remained.
Only the truth.
Only the feelings we had spent weeks trying to ignore.
Another knock followed.
This time louder.
More insistent.
Still, Ethan didn't look away.
His eyes remained fixed on mine.
The walls between us had finally cracked.
And neither of us knew how to rebuild them.
"Lily."
The way he said my name made my heart ache.
Not because it was dramatic.
Because it was honest.
For the first time, there was no distance in his voice.
No professor.
No student.
Just two people standing in the middle of a situation neither of them had planned for.
"I should have trusted you."
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