Chapter 52 —There's nothing between us

Narrator:

Aylin felt the weight of her own words as soon as she uttered them.

She heard them hanging in the air between them like a sentence, like a taut string about to snap.

Her pulse pounded furiously in her throat. She had no idea where she had found the courage to say it, nor was she even sure she had thought it before uttering it.

But there they were, those damn words.

“If I marry you... will he stop hating you?”

God... what had she just done? She fel