The Weight of Truth

SERAFINA

That did it. The tension in me cracked just a little. I looked away, exhaling slowly.

“I don’t like not knowing things,” I admitted quietly.

His thumb brushed against my cheek. “I know.”

“And I don’t like feeling like… there’s something I should have known but didn’t.”

“There isn’t,” he said firmly.

I looked back at him.

“Then don’t keep things from me.”

A beat passed.

“I’m not.”

“That di