Raylee’s POV
They don’t tell you, do they? No one warns you how it feels to realize just how much you love someone when it’s already too late. When your choices have shut every door that matters. It’s like... like waking up underwater, lungs burning, knowing you’re about to drown and yet, all you can think about is what you’re losing.
Benson. I didn’t realize how much he’d become a part of me until every moment with him felt forbidden. And now, he’s just... out of reach. Standing so close and yet feeling miles away.
I can’t do anything about it, can I? Not with my father watching, not with Rainer lurking like he’s already won. It’s as if every single word, every laugh, every look I’ve ever shared with Benson is being erased, rewritten by people who have no idea what he means to me. And
