Chapter 6 · free to read
The sky broke open all at once, the way secrets do. And there was only one umbrella between us.
For once he didn't fill the silence with that smirk. He just walked, and asked, and listened.
I hadn't meant to tell him. But the rain makes strangers of us, and strangers tell the truth.
He had thought my silence was fear, or foolishness. He understood now that it was survival.
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