Daniel
Once, I craved to shatter him. Now, all I wanted was for him choose me. To love me just as much as I loved him.
He'd claimed it wasn't meant to happen. That he loved someone else. And I'd known. He didn't need to say the name every time we got together… Nathan lurked omnipresently, a shadow between Jake and me.
Yet, Jacob kept coming back to me, unforced. He'd walk through my door, and each time, I'd lie to myself… this was it. The end. I would tell myself that he would never return.
And I yearned to believe it. To accept the fact that he would never be mine.
But truth be told, I wasn't supposed to be the 'other man'. Not anymore.
Not after everything that had happened.
After all the back and forth, the unspoken pleas for forgiveness, the way he'd let me touch him as if
