Sonia’s POV
It’s strange how love sneaks up on you.
One day you’re still convincing yourself that what you feel isn’t real, just a harmless crush that will fade if you ignore it long enough, and then suddenly, you can’t remember how to live without it.
That’s what Alexander had become for me. A quiet constant. A part of my everyday rhythm.
We weren’t just pretending anymore.
The engagement, though meant to be a formality, had changed something we didn’t talk about but both felt, the way people looked at us, the way our hands brushed when we walked side by side, the way silence between us no longer needed to be filled.
Every day with him felt like something new, something unfolding.
It was a Saturday morning when he knocked on my door.
I was still half-asleep, wrapped in a blanket,
