The world didn't just stop; it shattered. Those four words — Did you send this to anyone? hung in the air between us, a poisonous cloud that instantly vaporized the trust we had just so painstakingly built.
For a moment, I couldn't even process them. I just stared at him, at the man whose skin I could still feel against mine, whose whispered vows of "no more secrets" were still echoing in the room. The man who was now looking at me as if I were a stranger. A traitor.
The ice in my veins thawed, replaced by a scalding wave of fury.
"Get out," I said, my voice dangerously low.
He didn't move, his gaze fixed on me, a storm of betrayal and paranoia raging in his eyes. "Elara — "
"Get. Out." I stood up, grabbing the silk sheet and wrapping it around myself, a flimsy shield against his accu
