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00:00I'm already lying when the door swings open.
00:02The lie sits hot on my tongue,
00:04tastes like pennies and panic,
00:06and I keep it there because truth has teeth
00:08and I'm bleeding enough.
00:10My sneakers squeak on polished tile
00:12that costs more than my car.
00:14I shouldn't be here.
00:16I know that the way I know how to count bruises by color
00:19and keep my voice steady when men raise theirs.
00:21I know that the second job taught me to smile
00:24even when my ribs ache,
00:25and the first job taught me to keep my head down
00:27and my hand's busy, so nobody looks too close.
00:31I'm holding a delivery bag that isn't mine.
00:33It's heavy with paper and secrets.
00:35My phone keeps buzzing in my pocket like a trapped insect.
00:39I don't check it because checking it
00:41means choosing who to disappoint,
00:43and I can't do that right now.
00:45I can't do anything except breathe
00:47and pretend the pounding in my ears is music.
00:50Ma'am?
00:51A voice calls from behind me.
00:53Polite. Suspicious.
00:55I pivot on my heel and the lie rises
00:57to my lips again.
00:59Automatic. Rehearsed.
01:01Wrong, sweet.
01:02I say.
01:03Sorry.
01:05I move because stopping would mean thinking,
01:07and thinking would mean remembering
01:09the bruise under my sleeve,
01:10and the rent past due,
01:12and the text that said,
01:13if you don't bring it today,
01:14don't bother coming back.
01:16I move because motion is the only mercy I know.
01:20The hallway opens into a wide space
01:22flooded with clean light,
01:23glass walls,
01:25a city laid out like a promise outside them.
01:28No shadows to hide in.
01:30My chest tightens.
01:31I'm supposed to blend, not glow.
01:34I'm supposed to pass through rooms like this
01:36without leaving fingerprints?
01:37I don't.
01:38He's there, in the middle of it,
01:40calm like he owns the air.
01:42He's not big the way movies make men big.
01:45He's contained, shoulders relaxed,
01:47hands empty.
01:49He looks at me like he's been waiting,
01:51like my pulse is late.
01:52His suit fits the way truth fits,
01:54unforgiving.
01:56Dark hair cut sharp,
01:58eyes that don't rush to fill silence.
02:00I freeze.
02:01It's stupid, but I do.
02:04I stop mid-step like a rabbit caught by a car
02:06that costs more than my life.
02:08Don't run, he says.
02:10The words land gentle.
02:12The meaning doesn't.
02:14I swallow.
02:16I wasn't.
02:17A corner of his mouth lifts.
02:18Not a smile.
02:20An acknowledgement.
02:22He studies me, the bag,
02:23the way my grip tightens like I'm holding a lifeline.
02:26He takes a step closer,
02:28and the room shrinks.
02:29Not because he's tall,
02:31because he's certain.
02:33Who sent you?
02:34He asks.
02:36No one, I say, too fast,
02:39lying again.
02:40My stomach twists because I'm good at this,
02:42because being good at this is why I'm here.
02:45His gaze flicks to my wrist,
02:47where my sleeve rides up,
02:48a flash of yellow blooming under skin.
02:51I tug the fabric down without thinking,
02:53heat flooding my face.
02:55He doesn't comment.
02:56That's worse.
02:57Who hurt you this time?
02:58He asks.
03:00The question cracks something in me.
03:03Not because it's accusatory.
03:04Because it's precise.
03:06Because it implies a pattern.
03:08Because it sounds like he's noticed me before,
03:10and that's impossible.
03:11People like him don't notice people like me
03:14unless they want something.
03:16I laugh.
03:17It comes out thin.
03:18You don't get to ask me that.
03:20I do, he says.
03:22No heat.
03:23No threat.
03:25Just a statement like gravity exists,
03:26whether I believe in it or not.
03:29My phone buzzes again.
03:30I feel the vibration in my bones.
03:32I imagine my sister's face,
03:34tight with worry,
03:35the way she tries to pretend
03:36she's not afraid of the men I dodge.
03:38I imagine the landlord's voicemail,
03:41the one with the polite threat
03:42that ends with legal options.
03:44I imagine the second job's manager,
03:46his eyes on my chest when he talks,
03:48the way he says flexibility like it's a favor.
03:51I don't imagine the man in front of me
03:52letting me walk out of here untouched.
03:55I imagine him letting me leave
03:56and finding me later.
03:58I imagine him never letting me leave at all.
04:01What's in the bag?
04:03He asks.
04:03I could tell him.
04:06I could say envelopes,
04:07cash,
04:08names,
04:09the weight of things I shouldn't carry.
04:12I could say I didn't know what it was
04:13when I took it,
04:14and that would be true and useless.
04:16I could say I need the money,
04:18and that would be honest and dangerous.
04:21Food, I say.
04:23He looks at the bag.
04:24He looks at me.
04:26He exhales through his nose
04:27like he's amused despite himself.
04:29You're a terrible liar.
04:31I lift my chin.
04:32You're a terrible stranger.
04:35That does it.
04:36He smiles then,
04:37full and brief,
04:38like a door opening and closing on something warm.
04:41It messes me up more than a scowl would.
04:44It makes me want to step closer
04:46and farther away at the same time.
04:48Come with me,
04:50he says.
04:51No.
04:52No.
04:53Now,
04:54he says,
04:54still calm.
04:56I consider bolting.
04:58I consider dropping the bag
04:59and running until my lungs scream.
05:01I consider what happens after that.
05:04The men who don't smile.
05:05The hands that don't hesitate.
05:07The text that won't stop buzzing.
05:09I walk.
05:11His office smells like clean paper
05:13and something sharp I can't name.
05:15Citrus.
05:16Power.
05:17He gestures to a chair across from his desk.
05:20I stay standing.
05:21He doesn't argue.
05:23He leans against the desk instead,
05:24casual like he has time to burn
05:26and I'm the only interesting thing on his calendar.
05:29My name is Luca,
05:30he says.
05:31You don't need to tell me yours.
05:33I flinch because that feels like mercy.
05:36And mercy always comes with strings.
05:38I need to leave,
05:40I say.
05:41You need to sit,
05:42he says.
05:43And something in his eyes shifts.
05:45Not anger.
05:46Calculation.
05:48You're shaking.
05:49I'm not.
05:50You are,
05:51he says.
05:52Sit.
05:54I sit because my legs betray me.
05:56Because my body knows when it's done pretending.
05:58Because the chair catches me before I fall.
06:01He doesn't look at my chest.
06:03He doesn't look at my legs.
06:04He looks at my face like it's a map he's reading for the first time
06:07and already knows the shortcuts.
06:10You're carrying something that belongs to me,
06:12he says.
06:14Someone thought it would be funny to use you as a courier.
06:17I didn't know,
06:18I say,
06:19and my voice cracks.
06:20I hate it.
06:22I hate how honesty sneaks out when I'm tired.
06:25I just needed...
06:26Money,
06:27he finishes.
06:28I nod.
06:29The room tilts.
06:30I have two jobs.
06:32It's still not enough.
06:34He watches me,
06:35and I hate that my throat tightens because I want him to believe me.
06:39Who told you to bring it here?
06:41He asks.
06:42I don't know his name,
06:44I say.
06:45He hangs around the back of the restaurant.
06:47He pays cash.
06:48He said it was paperwork.
06:49And you believed him.
06:51I wanted to,
06:52I say.
06:54That feels like a confession.
06:56He straightens,
06:58steps away from the desk,
06:59takes the bag from my hands like it weighs nothing.
07:02He sets it down without opening it.
07:05He studies my face again,
07:06and I feel naked in a way that has nothing to do with skin.
07:09Listen to me,
07:10he says.
07:11If you leave with that bag,
07:13you don't make it home.
07:14My heart slams.
07:16Is that a threat?
07:18It's a fact,
07:19he says.
07:20If you leave without it,
07:21you still might not make it home.
07:23I stand.
07:24Then what do you want from me?
07:27Silence stretches.
07:29He seems to weigh words like currency.
07:31I want you safe,
07:33he says finally.
07:35I laugh again because it's ridiculous,
07:37because it's dangerous,
07:39because it feels like someone offering me
07:40water when I've been swallowing sand for years.
07:43You don't know me,
07:45I say.
07:46I know enough,
07:47he says.
07:48I know you're not the kind of person
07:50who does this unless you're cornered.
07:52I know someone put their hands on you recently.
07:55I know you didn't cry when you walked in here.
07:58My eyes burn.
08:00I refuse to let tears be the thing that gives me away.
08:04You think knowing that makes you good?
08:06I think it makes me careful,
08:08he says.
08:09And I think you need careful.
08:12The door opens.
08:14A man I recognize from the restaurant steps in,
08:17all confidence and grease.
08:19He freezes when he sees Luca.
08:21His smile dies.
08:23My stomach drops through the floor.
08:25There you are,
08:27the man says,
08:27trying to recover.
08:29Boss was wondering where.
08:31Luca's hand lifts.
08:32The room changes.
08:33Not in light.
08:34In pressure.
08:36Leave,
08:37he says to the man.
08:38The man laughs,
08:40thin.
08:41She works for...
08:42Leave,
08:44Luca says again.
08:45The man looks at me then,
08:47his eyes promising consequences.
08:49He backs out.
08:51My chest feels like it's caving in.
08:53You can't protect me from him,
08:55I whisper.
08:57He knows where I live.
08:59Luca looks at me like he's already decided
09:01something expensive.
09:03I can,
09:04he says.
09:06If you trust me,
09:08trust.
09:09The word feels like a bruise.
09:11I shouldn't.
09:13Every instinct screams run.
09:15Every lesson I learned says men like him
09:17don't give without taking.
09:19I look at the door.
09:21I look at the city outside,
09:23bright and indifferent.
09:25I think of my sister.
09:27I think of my rent.
09:29I think of the way his voice asked
09:30who hurt me like it mattered.
09:33I don't have a choice,
09:34I say.
09:35He nods once,
09:37solemn.
09:38You do,
09:39he says.
09:40But if you stay,
09:41you stay with me.
09:43The weight of that settles in my bones.
09:45I shouldn't trust him.
09:47I already do.
09:49Staying turns out to be louder than running.
09:52Not in sound.
09:53Luca's world hums quiet,
09:55efficient,
09:56like everything already knows where it belongs,
09:59but in my head.
10:00Every thought ricochets.
10:02Every breath feels borrowed.
10:04I wake up in a guest room
10:06that smells like clean linen and lemon polish,
10:09sunlight spilling in through tall windows
10:10like it has a personal invitation.
10:13No locks on the door.
10:15No guards posted inside.
10:16That almost scares me more.
10:19I lie there staring at the ceiling,
10:21counting cracks that aren't there,
10:23listening for footsteps that don't come.
10:25My phone is gone.
10:27Not smashed.
10:28Not thrown away.
10:30Just gone.
10:32Replaced with a small card on the nightstand.
10:35You're safe here.
10:37Eat something.
10:39L.
10:40I press the card between my fingers
10:42like it might dissolve.
10:44Safe is a word people use
10:45when they want you to stop asking questions.
10:48Safe is a lie I stopped believing in a long time ago.
10:51I get dressed in clothes that fit me too well to be accidental.
10:54Soft jeans.
10:55A white t-shirt that smells like nothing but new.
10:58I catch my reflection and barely recognize her.
11:01The bruise on my wrist is fading to green.
11:03I touch it anyway, grounding myself.
11:06Proof I didn't imagine the before.
11:07The kitchen is all glass and steel and quiet confidence.
11:12Luca is there, sleeves rolled,
11:14pouring coffee like this is a normal morning
11:16and not the aftermath of a decision that could get us both killed.
11:19You sleep?
11:21He asks without looking up.
11:23Enough, I say.
11:25My voice sounds steadier than I feel.
11:28He slides a mug toward me.
11:29Black.
11:30No sugar.
11:31He remembered.
11:33That detail hits harder than the danger.
11:36I take a sip and the heat burns my tongue.
11:38Real and anchoring.
11:40We need rules, I say.
11:42Now he looks at me.
11:43Interested.
11:44Okay.
11:45I'm not property, I say.
11:47I don't owe you anything.
11:49He nods once.
11:51Agreed.
11:52I need to see my sister.
11:54You will, he says immediately.
11:56She's already safe.
11:58My heart stutters.
11:59What does that mean?
12:01It means no one touches her, he says.
12:04Ever.
12:06I study his face for a crack, a tell.
12:09There's nothing.
12:10Just resolve.
12:12I hate how much relief floods me.
12:14I hate how close that brings me to trusting him.
12:17What do you want from me?
12:19I ask again.
12:20It's becoming a refrain.
12:22Nothing you don't choose, he says.
12:25I need time.
12:26And honesty.
12:28I laugh softly.
12:30Those are expensive.
12:32So am I, he says.
12:34And there it is.
12:35The truth he doesn't soften.
12:38Days blur into a strange rhythm.
12:40I'm allowed everywhere and nowhere.
12:42I walk the halls.
12:44I read books I didn't know I liked.
12:46I eat real meals at real tables and my body doesn't know what to do with that kindness.
12:51Luca comes and goes, always composed, always watching.
12:55We circle each other in conversations that feel like sparring matches disguised as small talk.
13:00You don't ask about my work, he says one afternoon as we stand on the balcony, the city bright and unapologetic below us.
13:07I don't want to owe you answers, I say.
13:11He considers that.
13:13Fair.
13:14I learn things anyway.
13:16The way people defer to him without him asking.
13:19The way his phone buzzes and he lets it ring when he's talking to me.
13:22The way he notices when I flinch at raised voices and quietly steers me out of rooms before I realize why.
13:28One night I wake up shaking from a dream I won't remember.
13:31I sit on the edge of the bed, breathing through it when there's a knock.
13:35Soft.
13:37Respectful.
13:38I heard you, Luca says through the door.
13:42I open it because part of me already has.
13:45He doesn't come in right away.
13:46He waits for permission like it matters.
13:48I'm fine, I say automatically.
13:51He looks at my hands.
13:52You're not.
13:53I step back.
13:55He follows, stopping a careful distance away.
13:57The silence stretches, thick with things neither of us names.
14:02I don't touch people who don't ask, he says quietly.
14:06I swallow.
14:07Sit.
14:09He does.
14:10I curl into the armchair across from him, hugging my knees.
14:14Words spill out in fragments.
14:16The second job, the first.
14:18The man at the restaurant.
14:20The way fear becomes normal when it's constant.
14:22I don't tell him everything.
14:24I tell him enough.
14:25He listens like confession is a responsibility, not entertainment.
14:31That man, he says when I finish.
14:34He wasn't freelancing.
14:36My stomach drops.
14:38What does that mean?
14:40It means he works for someone who knows you, Luca says, from before.
14:45The room tilts.
14:47I don't have a before like that.
14:50You do, he says gently.
14:52You just buried it.
14:53Memory hits me sideways.
14:56A name I stopped saying.
14:58A night I never finished telling.
15:00Betrayal tastes the same no matter how old it is.
15:04You knew, I say.
15:06Not a question.
15:08I suspected, he says.
15:09I didn't want to confirm it by pushing.
15:12Anger flares, sharp and clean.
15:14You're connected to this, I say.
15:16To him.
15:17Yes, Luca says.
15:19No dodge.
15:20No lie.
15:21And so are you.
15:22The floor falls out from under me.
15:24You used me.
15:25No, he says firmly.
15:27I protected you while I figured out how deep it went.
15:30I don't care.
15:31I snap.
15:32You don't get to decide for me.
15:34He stands.
15:36The storm finally surfacing.
15:38You walked into my world with blood on your sleeve and a bag that could start a war, he says.
15:43I decided you weren't collateral.
15:45The word stings.
15:47I'm not yours to save.
15:50I know, he says, softer.
15:52That's why I'm asking you to stay.
15:55I turn away, chest tight.
15:57Trust fractures, sharp and loud inside me.
16:00I don't know how to hold both the safety he offers and the truth he represents.
16:04The next day, everything explodes.
16:07I'm in the kitchen when the alarms don't sound.
16:09When the calm is too calm.
16:12Luca's phone rings and he answers it, face draining of color I didn't know he had.
16:17They have her, he says.
16:19My heart stops.
16:20Who?
16:22Your sister.
16:23The world narrows to a pinpoint.
16:26No, I say.
16:27You promised.
16:29I know, he says, already moving.
16:31They broke protocol.
16:32Well, this wasn't supposed to happen.
16:35Fix it, I say.
16:37Now.
16:38I will, he says.
16:40He grabs his jacket.
16:41But you can't come.
16:44I laugh, wild.
16:46Watch me.
16:47He grabs my shoulders, firm.
16:49They want leverage.
16:50You showing up gives it to them.
16:52They already have it, I say.
16:54I'm not hiding.
16:56He searches my face, seeing the decision lock in.
16:59He exhales, sharp.
17:00Then listen to me.
17:01He tells me the truth in pieces.
17:04The man from the restaurant.
17:05The old name.
17:07The way my past intersects with his worst enemy.
17:09How I'm not the target.
17:11They are.
17:12I can trade myself, he says, finally.
17:15My breath catches.
17:17What?
17:17I can walk in alone, he says.
17:20Give them what they want.
17:22You, I whisper.
17:24He nods.
17:25They won't touch you or your sister if I'm in their hands.
17:29No, I say.
17:31Absolutely not.
17:32It's my mess, he says.
17:34I finish it.
17:36I grab his jacket, fist tight.
17:38You don't get to martyr yourself.
17:41His eyes soften in a way that ruins me.
17:43I'm not, he says.
17:45I'm choosing.
17:47Something inside me breaks and reforms in the same breath.
17:50Then I choose to.
17:52Before he can stop me, I grab his gun from the counter.
17:55My hands don't shake.
17:57I don't aim it at him.
17:58I press it into his chest, right over his heart.
18:01If you go, I say, voice deadly calm, I go with you.
18:07The room holds its breath.
18:10Luca looks at me like I'm inevitable.
18:12He lowers the gun gently.
18:14This ends tonight, he says.
18:17It feels final, and for the first time since I walked into his office,
18:22I'm not afraid of the danger.
18:24I'm afraid of losing him.
18:26After doesn't feel like relief.
18:28It feels like waking up inside your own body again
18:31and realizing how long you are gone.
18:33Time passes in pieces.
18:36Not days or weeks.
18:37Sensations.
18:39The taste of broth when I can finally eat without my stomach rebelling.
18:43The ache in my arms fading from adrenaline, not bruises.
18:47The quiet hum of a city that keeps moving
18:49whether you almost lose everything or not.
18:52My sister sleeps on the couch the first night back in my apartment,
18:55curled up like she used to when we were kids.
18:58And Storm's knocked the power out.
19:00She doesn't ask questions yet.
19:02She knows me well enough to wait until my hands stop shaking when I make tea.
19:07Luca doesn't come with us.
19:08That's the part that hurts the most.
19:10He makes sure she's safe.
19:12He makes sure I'm untouched by the fallout.
19:15He disappears back into the machinery of his world
19:17like that's the price of choosing us over himself.
19:20Like distance is the penance he assigns himself without asking if I agree.
19:24I hate him for it.
19:26I love him for it.
19:27Both feel the same in my chest.
19:29Tight, hot, impossible to ignore.
19:31I go back to work.
19:32Both jobs.
19:34I need the routine.
19:35I need the proof that I'm still me.
19:37That survival didn't turn me into something fragile.
19:40The restaurant smells the same.
19:42Grease and sugar and burnt coffee.
19:44The second job still smiles too wide.
19:46But the manager doesn't look at me the way he used to.
19:50Someone spoke to him.
19:51Someone expensive.
19:53I carry myself differently now.
19:55I notice it in reflections.
19:57My shoulders don't curl inward as much.
20:00My voice doesn't apologize before it speaks.
20:03Healing isn't pretty.
20:05It's quiet and stubborn and sometimes lonely as hell.
20:08At night, when the city buzzes outside my window,
20:11I think about Luca in fragments.
20:13His hands, careful even when they were sure.
20:17The way he listened like every word mattered.
20:20The way he chose restraint when power would have been easier.
20:24I don't hear from him.
20:25That's the deal, I tell myself.
20:27That's what safety looks like.
20:29Weeks pass.
20:30Then more.
20:31The danger recedes like a tide that never fully goes out
20:34but stops licking at your ankles.
20:37The man from the restaurant is gone.
20:40The name I buried stays buried this time.
20:42Not because I'm running, but because it no longer owns me.
20:46One afternoon, I quit the second job.
20:49My heart pounds when I do it.
20:51Not from fear.
20:52From release.
20:54I hand in my apron.
20:55I don't explain.
20:57I walk out into the bright day and let myself stand there,
21:00breathing, realizing I chose myself without needing permission.
21:04That's when my phone buzzes.
21:06A number I don't have saved.
21:07You free?
21:08Two words.
21:09No signature.
21:10My chest tightens anyway.
21:12Yes.
21:13I type before I can overthink it.
21:15Come downstairs.
21:16I stand at my window, staring at the street like it might blink away if I hesitate.
21:21I grab my jacket.
21:22I don't tell my sister where I'm going.
21:24I don't need to.
21:26She knows the look on my face now.
21:27The one that says this matters.
21:30He's leaning against a car that costs more than my annual rent, but he looks...
21:33Different.
21:35No suit.
21:36No armor.
21:38Just a dark t-shirt, sleeves rolled, hair a little longer than before.
21:43Human.
21:45Tired.
21:46Real.
21:47I stop a few feet away.
21:49My heart hammers like it's running to catch up with something it lost.
21:53Hey, I say.
21:54Hey, he says back.
21:56Silence stretches.
21:58Not awkward.
22:00Loaded.
22:01We study each other like survivors meeting at the edge of a story that almost killed them.
22:06You look stronger, he says.
22:08I snort.
22:09I feel tired.
22:11He smiles faintly.
22:12That tracks.
22:14I cross my arms, suddenly unsure.
22:17Why are you here?
22:19He exhales, slow.
22:21Because I finished it.
22:23What does that mean?
22:25It means no one comes for you again, he says.
22:28Ever.
22:30I search his face for bravado.
22:32There's none.
22:33Just certainty that doesn't need applause.
22:36And you?
22:37I ask.
22:38What does it mean for you?
22:40He shrugs slightly.
22:42I stepped back.
22:43Gave things up.
22:45For me?
22:46I ask, heart in my throat.
22:49For myself, he corrects gently.
22:52You just made it obvious what was costing too much.
22:54That hits harder than any declaration.
22:57Choice over obligation.
22:59Growth without spectacle.
23:01I swallow.
23:02You didn't say goodbye.
23:04I didn't trust myself to leave if I did, he admits.
23:08The honesty cracks something open.
23:11I step closer.
23:12He doesn't move away.
23:13I was angry, I say.
23:17I still am.
23:19I know, he says.
23:22You're allowed.
23:23I thought you decided for me again, I say.
23:27That you didn't think I deserved a say.
23:30His eyes soften.
23:31I was afraid if I stayed, I'd pull you back into a world you fought your way out of.
23:36And now?
23:37I ask.
23:38Now I'm standing in yours, he says.
23:42Asking.
23:43The word hangs between us.
23:45Asking.
23:46Not taking.
23:47Not assuming.
23:49I look at him.
23:51Really look.
23:52At the man who chose restraint when he could have chosen dominance.
23:55Who offered safety without ownership.
23:58Who walked away because he thought that was love.
24:01And came back because he realized love also listens.
24:04I don't need saving, I say quietly.
24:08I know, he says.
24:11I don't want perfection, I say.
24:13I want honesty.
24:15I want choice.
24:16I want someone who doesn't flinch when things get hard.
24:19He nods.
24:20I can do that.
24:22I hesitate, then add, I'm still healing.
24:26So am I, he says.
24:28We don't have to rush.
24:30The relief in that lands like oxygen.
24:32I step into him, slow, giving him every chance to pull away.
24:37He doesn't.
24:39His arms come around me like they've learned the difference between holding and trapping.
24:44I rest my forehead against his chest, listening to a heartbeat that sounds steadier than mine,
24:49but not invincible.
24:51We stand like that for a long moment.
24:53No declarations.
24:54No promises that sound too big to keep.
24:57Just gravity.
24:59I carried two jobs to survive, I say, into the fabric of his shoes.
25:02I don't want to carry everything alone anymore.
25:06He presses a kiss to my hair.
25:08Light.
25:09You won't.
25:10We don't move in together.
25:12Not yet.
25:13We don't rewrite the past.
25:15We don't pretend scars disappear.
25:17We rebuild instead.
25:19Slow dinners.
25:20Honest arguments.
25:21Laughter that surprises us both.
25:23He learns my sister's favorite takeout.
25:26I learn when to ask.
25:28And when to let him be quiet.
25:30Love stops feeling like a weapon.
25:32It becomes a choice we make.
25:34Over and over.
25:35In small ways that add up.
25:37I tell you this because I promised myself I'd never tell anyone.
25:41Because survival isn't just about getting out.
25:43It's about letting yourself stay.
25:45Because healing doesn't look like fireworks.
25:48It looks like breathing without flinching.
25:51And because once, at my breaking point, a man asked me who hurt me.
25:55This time, when I answer, it doesn't own me anymore.
25:59I'm still here.
26:00And I chose love.
26:02If this story pulled something loose inside you.
26:05If you felt her fear, her fire, her healing.
26:10Stay with me.
26:11Like.
26:12Subscribe.
26:14Share this with someone who's still carrying too much alone.
26:17Because the stories that save us are the ones we tell out loud.
26:20That's half a good day.
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