✤ Sera ✤
It took me a moment to settle after everything I had just told him. My dreams, my parents, and the future I wanted. I wasn’t used to speaking so openly with anyone, especially not about things that sat at the center of who I was. But Adrian listened like every word mattered. Like my voice wasn’t just background noise to him. That made me feel brave enough to go further. His eyes met mine, steady and warm.
“What else do you want to know?” I asked quietly. He eased back on the couch, thoughtful.
“Whatever you are willing to tell me. Whatever feels important,” he said, and I hesitated. Whatever feels important. That could mean a thousand things. But in relationships, real ones, there was always one part that mattered more than anything else. Past lovers. The people who shaped you
