Evelin's POV
"You'll end up being my boyfriend eventually anyway, so why not tell you now?"
The words rolled off my tongue with absolute certainty, like I was stating something as obvious as the sky being blue.
My face lit up with bold confidence—this wasn't wishful thinking, just pure fact.
Jimmy's heartbeat seemed to falter; his gaze locked onto my face like he couldn't look away.
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Jimmy's POV
I kept pushing boundaries, testing the depths of her feelings, but each test felt like stepping onto cracking ice, anxiety gnawing at my chest.
Any hint of doubt from her made me panic—what if she got fed up and walked away? What if she retreated and stopped caring altogether?
Yet beneath all that terror, I'd whisper to myself, 'If she actually did that, then maybe her love was never strong enough anyway.'
Better to face the brutal truth quickly than slowly bleed out from another abandonment.
