Tangled Hearts, Straight Faces - Chapter 28

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Chapter 28: The FallThere was no grand declaration. No dramatic confession under the stars. Their fall was quiet, an inevitable gravitational pull they had been resisting for months. It happened in the unspoken moments, in the spaces between words.It was in the way he now brought her tea instead of coffee, because he’d noticed she preferred it in the afternoons.It was in the way she seamlessly finished his sentences during client calls,not to show him up, but to support him.It was in the way their hands would brush when reaching for the same document,and instead of pulling away, they would