Fallen Perfection

~VALERIE POV~

The morning began soft, the kind of soft that always tricked me into thinking life could be normal. Donovan's car was already purring in the driveway, his driver waiting, his phone buzzing endlessly from the backseat.

And yet, instead of leaving, he remained on the front steps like a sulking child refusing to go to school.

I walked him out, his hand heavy around my waist, his face fa