Ending Before Beginning

I felt a chill run down my spine and I began regretting getting on his wrong side.

“There is nothing to gain from loving someone that you can't have. No matter how much you love him, he will never be yours,” Desmond said coldly as his eyes seemed to glaze over and become lifeless.

His words shocked me, not because I couldn't predict the same outcome, but because it convinced me that he knew the identity of the man that I love.

How else could he say with absolute certainty that Anthony would never be mine?