Love Can’t be a Secret Forever
@silvertongued-fox
❛ ₩hy didn’t you tell me you two were together? ❜
𝐋aurie instantly could feel her heart drop, cold fingers of guilt creeping up from the inky depths of her chest. She couldn’t bring herself to look up, let alone make eye contact with Ace. This man is practically her guide, her father, she told him everything, & vice versa, so the woman never expected to keep even the most personal of secrets from him, but this, this was much more than a secret, it was her life now, & she couldn’t keep that hidden.
But that didn’t make this talk any less hard, how could she even begin explain it? Oh, I didn’t want to tell you that I’ve found my other half over the little fact that he’s a serial killer who happens to have slaughtered our friends before! Yeah, no. She never liked to be dishonest, but she knew that Ace would be quick to nip issues at the bud, & if he found out specifically who was Laurie’s lover, he would be more than damned to hunt him down like a bloodhound.
“ I-I’m sorry...”
She started, her words were breathy & soft, like a whisper, but chopped, almost as if she were to cry.
“Please, please, don’t be mad,
he’s a genuinely wonderful person & I know you probably won’t believe me but, please Ace, he makes me so, so happy...
I’m so sorry I didn’t tell you before...”
Her gaze was locked in a blurred stare at the flickering flames, orange, dancing embers dusting the burnt ground like stars. She could feel the emotions in the air, the disbelief, the shock, the betrayl, it was suffocating her like a warm, damp rag.
Tears kissed the corners of her eyes as she waited in stagnant silence, hoping for the best, for Ace to believe her words without doubt, but Laurie always was realistic, painfully realistic. She knew she would most likely be nothing short of a lecture, or possibly worse, the silence would continue to grow between them & capitulate the bond she worked so hard for between her & Ace.
& as her breathing filled her ears, she didn’t know if she could live with herself if the silence stayed between them.











