VeronicaMadden
HIM: He was never mine to want... but he never gave me a choice."
HER: I married the right man... but craved the wrong one."
The first time he looked at her like that, she felt it-wrong, dangerous... unforgettable.
It wasn't supposed to happen. Not in this house. Not between them.
She was his brother's wife.
And yet, the silence between them had started to speak louder than anything else.
It was in the way his gaze lingered a second too long...
In the way her breath caught when he stepped too close...
In the way neither of them moved away.
"You shouldn't look at me like that," she whispered one evening, her voice barely steady.
He didn't step back.
Didn't apologize.
Instead, he leaned just enough for his words to brush against her skin.
"Then stop standing so close."
Her heart betrayed her first.
Because she didn't move.
Didn't run.
Didn't remember whose name she was supposed to belong to.
And somewhere between stolen glances and quiet nights...
Between guilt and something far more dangerous...
They crossed a line that was never meant to be touched.