It Has Me By The Balls

Letlotlo Motaung cuts into people's brains for a living.
Getting into their hearts? That's where she fails.
She's a neurosurgeon who keeps the world at arm's length, because if they get close enough, they'll find the dark folds she hides. The things that would make them leave. The secret that would make the Khumalo heir walk away without looking back.

Enter Nkanyezi Khumalo. Annoyingly patient, impossibly persistent, and completely uninterested in her "no feelings" rule. He wants to annoy her, challenge her, love her - whatever it takes to get her attention.

And dammit, it's working!

Now 𝘪𝘵 has her by the balls.

Maybe 𝘪𝘵 is his hands on her lower back when she tries to leave.
Maybe 𝘪𝘵 is the way he looks at her like the secret won't scare him.
Maybe 𝘪𝘵 is her own traitorous heart, choosing the man she could destroy if she lets him stay.
But Letlotlo's carrying something she never planned to share. Something that could make him walk away the second he finds out.

She's falling. He's not looking back.
What happens when the truth catches up? The question isn't if she'll run.
It's whether he'll let her.