Leo sat there, unmoving. The room was too quiet. His head was a mess of static, his breath coming in shallow bursts. He couldn’t even remember when Amara had left, iit had happened so fast, too fast. One second she was there, trembling, eyes wide with betrayal; the next, she was gone.
Now, all that was left was silence. Silence, and the sound of his own heartbeat thudding like punishment inside his skull.
He leaned back against the wall, fingers digging into his hair. He had said it. The secret. The one thing he’d promised himself he would never say. And now that it was out, he didn’t feel free. He felt empty. Stripped raw. Like a damn i***t.
He let out a shaky laugh that turned into something closer to a sob. “I ruined it,” he muttered under his breath, his voice cracking. “I f*****g r
