TESSA
He wasn’t upset… Well, not in the way that I thought he would. Thank God, it could have gone way worse. His voice hadn’t risen and he hadn’t pulled away from me the way I thought he might.
The weight of that realization wrapped itself around me like a warm blanket in the cold night. For days, I had lived with a tightening ache in my chest, and waiting for the fallout, thinking he would look at me with disgust, pity and anything but love when he found out. But he didn’t.
He looked at me like I still belonged to him, like he wasn’t going anywhere and like he still chose me, even after knowing the one thing I never wanted him to. That alone made my eyes sting. Now, neither Dalia or anyone else has a hold on me.
“I’m not letting them have anything over you again,” he announced as
