“Why did you follow me?” I ask, breathing hard.
Yan doesn’t look away—he watches, focused and wary.
“Because you wanted it.”
There used to be three of us—me, Svyatoslav, and Yan. School years, a football field, beach walks—we were always together. But at some point Yan suddenly drifted away from us. That loss brought me and Svyatik closer, turning us into a couple.
Svyatoslav respects me, and I appreciate him for that. I hope he never finds out that inside me I fight an irresistible pull toward Yan—unstoppable and reckless.
The situation gets complicated when Svyatoslav leaves for studying in the capital, and me and Yan end up in the same group at a local university.