Daniel Life has this f****d-up way of spinning on a dime. One second, you're living a lie, and the next, reality slaps you in the face so hard you see stars. And right now? I was f*****g blind. Jacob stood in front of me, his body rigid, his eyes avoiding mine like I was something he needed to scrub off his skin. The air between us was thick with words we couldn’t speak… every stolen touch, every whispered promise, every f*****g time he had moaned my name like it was the only word he knew. And now? Now he was telling me it was over. Done, like it never happened. Like we never happened. I watched him, hoping he'd say something to change the story… anything. A hesitation. A flicker of doubt. A sign that he was just as torn apart as I was. But what came out of his mouth was a

