No.
He could not yet forgive her lies.
His thoughts turned to Raellyn again, his heart beginning to ache once more.
A new kind of ache took hold of him.
He remembered her words. How unexpectedly she had spoken them. The pain in her voice. The rawness of her confession. And with that memory came pain, creeping in like a shadow.
He had said nothing at that time. He had offered her silence in return.
And now he could imagine the consequences of his silence pressing against his chest.
He had pushed her away. Not because she had failed him, but because she had come too close. Because she had shown him something he didn’t know how to handle love.
Before the storm, Arnav couldn’t deny it:
The moments he spent with Raellyn had been some of the happiest in his life.
She had told him she l
