The kitchen felt like it was shrinking, the walls closing in until the air itself started vibrating with the unbearable weight of Theon’s words. I stood there, frozen in place, my arms still looped tightly around Eryx’s neck. My body was pressed so close to his that I could feel the erratic, heavy thud of his heart echoing against my own ribs. My mind was racing at a million miles an hour, tripping over itself as I tried to process the bombshell that Theon had just casually thrown into the room.
"Ended years ago?" I repeated the words, my voice sounding barely like a whisper in the tense silence. I looked up at Eryx, searching every inch of his face for a denial, a scoff, or even a mean laugh. I was looking for anything to show me that Theon was just being a manipulative prick trying to r
