Chapter 153

DAHLIA

The world tilted.

I didn’t even realize I was shaking until my phone almost slipped out of my hand.

The video…

The caption…

The comments…

My breath vanished. My ears rang. My vision blurred around the edges like someone had smeared Vaseline on reality.

No… no, no, no.

This cannot be happening.

“What the hell?” Alex snapped, braking so hard the seatbelt cut into my chest. “Dahlia. What is wrong with you?”

I opened my mouth.

Nothing came out.

My tongue was thick, my throat locked. I couldn’t form a single word. My hand just kept trembling around the phone like it wasn’t even mine.

“Dahlia.”

Still nothing.

So of course, because he’s Alex… because consent is a foreign concept to him… He snatched the phone from my hand.

“Give it… Alex, don’t!”

Too late.

His eyes dropped to the screen.

Silence.

Then…

“Oh wow,” he breathed, a laugh slipping out. A laugh. “Thi