She read the message… and froze.
Her thumb hovered above the screen, as if one wrong move would make it disappear.
But it didn’t.
It stayed there.
Burning.
“I can’t keep lying to her anymore.”
Her heart skipped—no, it dropped.
Like something inside her had just slipped loose.
She blinked.
Once.
Twice.
Maybe she misunderstood.
Maybe it wasn’t what it looked like.
But the name at the top of the chat…
It was his.
And the message—
