En cours de chargement...
It's strange to look back at the woman I once was, nearly two decades ago. I was 19, full of ambition, driven by dreams of success, and in love with the man I thought I would spend my life with. Karan and I had already been together for years-he was my first, my only, and in every way, my future. At least, that's what I believed. But life has a way of taking us down paths we never expect. What started as a bright and hopeful future slowly gave way to something darker, something I couldn't have foreseen at that innocent age.
The woman I was back then could never have imagined the choices I would make, the secrets I would carry, or the desires I would soon awaken. The first book of these confessions, "The Awakening, " chronicles the beginning of my transformation. It was in those early years that the cracks in my perfect image began to form. The first temptations were subtle, but they were there-moments of weakness I couldn't explain, impulses I had never felt before.
And then, in one fateful moment, I crossed a line I couldn't uncross. That first betrayal, that first taste of forbidden desire, changed everything. From there, the spiral began. What started as an act of curiosity, maybe even rebellion, slowly consumed me. The guilt was overwhelming, and yet, the pull of that secret life was too strong to resist. I was no longer just Adira, the devoted girlfriend, the perfect woman in waiting.
I was something more-something darker, something that craved the thrill of secrecy, the rush of risk.
