Brutal rejection

Leilani

Adonis stopped dead in his tracks, going perfectly still after the words I had just said to him, still facing the other direction with his back to me.

‘I am in love with you, Adonis.’

I had finally said it. The one thing I had been so damn scared of doing all this while. All my fears had boiled down to this one moment, where my heart was raw, bare and open. I felt so vulnerable, more vulnerable than I had ever been in my entire life. It was ironic, how I had always wanted to find love with Neil, but I had found it beneath the hands of his mysterious, complicated brother instead.

There was silence after I had voiced out my confession through tears, and the only thing I could hear was my thumping heart, and my racing, panicking thoughts. Why was he so silent?