Nathan
I had to confront him. Not just for Jacob’s sake, but for my sanity.
Daniel’s re surfacing into Jacob’s life was like a slap in the face, a reminder of the pain he’d left behind.
The moment I heard his name whispered between Jacob’s lips again, something inside me twisted… a raw, festering wound that had never fully healed.
High school had been years ago, but the scars remained, jagged and unrelenting.
Now, here I was, standing outside the quaint café, the kind with soft jazz humming through the speakers and the scent of roasted coffee beans thick in the air.
The very first place I’d seen them years ago.
It was weirdly quiet, the kind of place where conversations were held in hushed tones, where secrets lingered in the spaces between words.
I felt like a fish out of w
