Chapter 105. Forbidden Us

Teyana’s POV

For one ridiculous second, I forgot how to speak. My lungs worked but my voice wouldn’t.

I wanted time to stop where we were right now—his hands still gently cupping my face, his eyes on mine, looking at me like that—like I was a fancy treasure he couldn’t afford to lose.

I wanted to hear him say those words again and again till my ears hurt.

I wished there were no obstacles, wished there was nothing to consider. But…

I had a thousand answers at once—yes, no, maybe, not yet, I can’t—and none of them felt honest unless I shaped them. I thought of Mom in the next room, smiling through the exhaustion. I thought of the footage still pulsing through the internet. I thought of Zayne’s face when he’d said the things he said earlier, John’s career also.

No, we didn’t have to be selfish and make others suffer. And whoever was behind the leaked video, I had a feeling she wouldn’t stop until we both actually separated. Her next action mig