Strictly Performance

PIPER’S POV

Kellan’s answer didn’t just settle in the room, it sank into me, deep and slow, like something I wasn’t prepared to hold. Something too heavy. Too real.

He’d said it quietly, too quietly for something so large.

“Because every time I looked at you, I saw everything I wanted and knew I could never have.”

Those words broke something. Not loudly. Not dramatically. Just… quietly. In a way t