Under The Surface
I could feel the weight of Julian’s words settling over me, like a shadow creeping over the cracks in my carefully constructed reality. The world I thought I knew—my safe, predictable life with Damien—was slipping away, and I wasn’t sure if I was ready for the storm that was coming. I had always known that Damien was different. There were things about him that didn’t make sense, pieces of his past he’d never shared with me. But now, as the silence stretched between us, I realized just how little I actually understood about the man I thought I loved. I glanced at him, watching the way his jaw clenched, his eyes flicking to Julian, then back to me. There was a storm inside him, a tension in the way he stood that I hadn’t noticed before. He was carrying something heavy, something I wasn’t s
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