Ending Before Beginning

I felt a chill run down my spine and I began regretting getting on his wrong side.

“There is nothing to gain from loving someone that you can't have. No matter how much you love him, he will never be yours,” Desmond said coldly as his eyes seemed to glaze over and become lifeless.

His words shocked me, not because I couldn't predict the same outcome, but because it convinced me that he knew the identity of the man that I love.

How else could he say with absolute certainty that Anthony would never be mine?

I wasn't sure if the timing was on my side or not, but the car suddenly came to a stop and that meant that we had arrived back at my house where their prince was supposed to drop me off. It felt like a short eternity had passed by, and I didn't remember the ride from my place to the venue being that long. I turned and stared at the prince while my mind raced to find the right words to say to him in order to end our conversation. After having learned that leaving our conversation