Between Two Men – Chapter 8: The Discovery
Between Two Men – Chapter 8 – The Discovery Looking back, I don’t know when the double life stopped feeling like a secret and started feeling like a sentence. It happened gradually. One week blurred into the next. I would leave Marcus’s bed in the dark, walk the same four blocks with my pulse already climbing, and let Alex open the door with that same knowing look. He rarely asked how I was anymore. He simply told me what to do, and I did it. The degradation had become its own language. One I had grown fluent in and could no longer pretend I didn’t understand. I kept telling myself I would stop. Every morning I woke up beside Marcus and made the same quiet promise. Every night I broke it. The compulsion was difficult …