The admission that he could move his legs hit me like a massive physical blow.

For a long moment, I couldn’t even speak as my thoughts spiraled into confusion, deep anger, and betrayal.

“Why?” I finally managed to ask him, my voice breaking under the emotional weight.

“There are serious things you don’t know, Lila,” he said, his tone suddenly filled with deep remorse.

“My family… they have very dangerous enemies — people who would hurt me just to get to them,” he explained.

After the accident, his father thought it was much safer if the entire world believed he was completely paralyzed.

It was originally supposed to be temporary, just until the heavy security threats settled down.

“And I never meant to pull you into this dark web,” he said, his voice raw with genuine regret.

Beneath the heavy lies and secrecy, I saw intense fear in his eyes — not just of his enemies, but of losing me forever.

The masks had completely fallen, the lies had been exposed, and what remained between us was raw, uncertain, but real.