You hadn’t told anyone about the relationship. Not about the constant tension, or the way you’d started shrinking into yourself, your smile never quite reaching your eyes anymore.

_But Derek noticed. _

He showed up at your apartment without calling first, jaw set, voice calm but firm.

“Get in the car.”

You hesitated, shaking your head.

Derek stepped closer, his tone dropping.

“I’m not letting you go back into a place that’s breaking you.”