Unwanted Obsession

Candlelight flickered over my untouched dinner plate while an uneasy knot twisted tight in my gut.

My thoughts wouldn’t stop racing, and although I knew damn well where they kept straying, even admitting it inside my own skull felt wrong—almost like a sin, an outright violation of my own control.

She had zero business taking up space in my head, let alone clouding my focus badly enough to ruin o