Solace and Ruin

Forbidden was only the beginning...I lost everything-my parents, my home, my future-until survival was all I had left. Finding enough food to fill my belly was the best I could hope for now.Then he came into my life, saving me in more ways than one.He wasn't a stranger or the hero he pretended to be. He was someone from my past and knew who I was as soon as I gave him my name. He chose to keep the truth hidden, and that stung more than any of the losses I've experienced. The hope he had given was just a lie.By the time I learned who he really was, I'd already crossed a line I couldn't undo.Wanting him was forbidden.Loving him was worse.The age gap. The secrets. The life I was still clinging to-none of it mattered once my heart betrayed me.Now I don't know what hurts more: the truth he kept from me, or walking away from the one thing that made me believe in hope again.He may have been my hero, but some betrayals can't be forgotten.