Chapter 49: The Moment He Knew
Theo believed in people's weaknesses…
Even though he grew up thinking that emotions were nothing but distractions like some flaws that got people killed…he was always trying to understand the ones who couldn't defend themselves.
But then Danielle happened, and suddenly everything he had trained himself to forget came rushing back like an old scar being torn open.
He remembered the first time he realised it. The night in the woods….
That messy and foggy smoke, darkness, gunfire between the trees. His pulse had been calm, until he heard her voice. Until she screamed for him.
"Theo!"
That one word shattered something inside him.
He had heard her call him before, a hundred times, in that casual way she said it…half teasing, half demanding.
But that night, it was different. It wasn't playful. It wasn't controlled. It was desperate. And it did something to him that he didn't understand at first.
