“Relax,” he said, cutting me off gently. An easy, amused smile settled on his face, like my rambling didn’t bother him in the slightest.
Was I talking too fast? I hadn’t even realized it until then. The words had been tumbling out of me almost on their own the moment I started speaking.
“Look, I’m completely fine with whatever misunderstanding happened that night and the morning after. All of that’s in the past now. There’s no need to stress over any of it,” he said, his tone easy and reassuring.
I let out a small sigh of relief, my shoulders dropping as some of the tension I hadn’t even realized I was carrying finally eased.
“It feels really good to finally get that off my chest,” I admitted, almost more to myself than to him, as the quiet weight I’d been carrying for days finally beg
