*Daphne*

When I admitted my feelings to him, it was as if a heavy weight was released from my chest. I had felt so tight and constricted holding the feelings and the secret in. I spoke the truth, regardless of the consequences.

I had nothing left to lose.

I waited for him to respond. His face had become so stoic and unreadable, that I wasn’t sure what his actual reaction was. He could have been thinking I was joking and I wouldn’t have known ...