ARIANA

In that moment, my heart skipped a beat. The words he spoke were raw, vulnerable in a way I hadn’t expected. The man standing beside me, the one who had everything—power, wealth, control—was now revealing a side of himself I hadn’t known existed.

His voice trembled slightly, and I noticed how his hands gripped the railing, his knuckles whitening as if he was holding himself back from something deeper. His confession hung between us like a heavy fog, thick and suffocating.

I stood still, trying to process everything he’d just shared. I’d always known there was more to Grayson than what he let on, but this… this was different....