The Start of the Disaster    

[WARNING! MATURE Content ahead!]

 

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[EVE]

 

"I love you . . . ," I whispered.

 

Cole's lips curved into the faintest of smiles, and he reached out, his fingers brushing a stray lock of hair from my face.

 

"Hmm?" His voice was low, a rumble that resonated through me like a soothing melody.

 

I wanted to tell him everything—how much he meant to me, how long I'd waited for this, how my heart had been a battlefield of hope and despair for so long. But the words tangled in my throat, too heavy and too fragile all at once.

 

Instead, I let the silence speak, the way his hand lingered on my cheek, the way I leaned into his touch as if it was the only anchor I had in a drifting sea.