"It was never a secret," Kian finally spoke up, "Alice was reporting everything to me regularly. Don't be mad at her, she was just doing her job. She needed my permission in order to do the things you asked for, so I knew it all."
Samirah reaction time was slower than it had ever been. It took a while to process what she just heard. The one thing she was so afraid of admitting, it was already known to Kian. It wasn't so easy to digest...
It was a fish bone stuck in her throat.
Kian tightly held onto her hand and made her look at him. Samirah saw the same doubts in his eyes that she was feeling a few minutes ago. What was he afraid of?
"Samirah, I want you to listen to me carefully, okay?" Kian began cautiously.
Not knowing what to expect, Samirah nodded slowly.
Kian took a nerv
