Zayne’s POV
I don’t want anything else standing between us. Not lies or secrets.
For too long my life has been built around things I refused to look at too closely—memories that slipped through my fingers, pieces of my past that never quite made sense, conversations I avoided because digging deeper meant confronting things I wasn’t ready to face.
But Isla changed that. She has this way of forcing truth into the open without even trying. And tonight, sitting across from her at the small kitchen table in her apartment, I realize something with a clarity that feels almost painful.
If I want to keep her in my life…then there can’t be anything left in the dark. No more hiding. No more waiting for the “right time.”
If something exists in my past that could hurt her, she deserves to hear i
