Uninvited Guest

~Raina~

I called Kaelen before I left the office that evening, because what I needed to say to him was not something I wanted to say through a text message that he could read and reread and twist into something it was not.

"We need to stop," I said the moment he answered.

There was a pause on the other end. Not long, but long enough that I knew he had heard me clearly and was choosing how to respo