Shadow of the White Room
The week passed in a blur of intensity. They didn’t sleep—Selin barely needed to anymore, as if her body was forgetting its human requirements. They talked about everything: their past, their regrets, the life they could have had. Murat told her about death. Not the peaceful rest people imagined, but the liminal confusion, the pull between worlds, the desperate clinging to the last threads of the living. “I should have moved on,” he said one night. “Whatever comes after, I should have gone. But I couldn’t leave you. Not with things unfinished between us.” “Ceyda, you mean.” “That. And other things. I never told you I was scared.” “Of what?” “Of not being enough. Of you waking up one day and realizing you’d settled for mediocrity. I loved you so much it terrified me, because I knew I
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