Date = 22 November Place = San Francisco (Damion’s house) POV – Damion WARNING – s*x scene!!! “I love you.” It’s barely more than a breath. A slip. An accident. But it lands anyway. It hits me square in the chest and everything inside me just… stops. Cold. Like someone pulled the plug on my heart and left me standing there, stunned, holding something fragile I don’t know how to carry. The old fear rushes in on cue — the one that tells me I’m not enough, never have been, never will be. That I don’t deserve this girl, this moment, this feeling. It swells fast, ugly, and familiar, threatening to choke the life out of me. But this time, there’s no backing out — little Johnny already walked through the tunnel. And what a walk it was. I’ve never been so aroused in my life. Never fe

