"You came," he said, voice rough.
She swallowed the speech she’d rehearsed a hundred times—the one about boundaries, about self-respect, about goodbye. beyonce lyrics dangerously in love
The elevator doors opened. The rain had stopped. And there he was, leaning against a lamppost, dripping wet, holding a single red tulip—her favorite. "You came," he said, voice rough
Then came the texts.
The rain had stopped, but the air still felt heavy—thick with the kind of humidity that clung to your skin like a secret. Nina stood at her bedroom window, the city lights blurring through the wet glass. Her phone buzzed for the tenth time that hour. She didn't need to look. It was him. " he said