SOME WOUNDS BlEED QUIETLY

#vote#onDreame This chapter was hard to write—because it mirrors a truth so many of us live but are afraid to speak aloud. Heartbreak doesn’t always arrive with slamming doors or screaming matches. Sometimes, it slips in quietly. Through broken trust. Through silence. Through a kind of betrayal that doesn’t leave bruises but still shatters something inside. Uche’s journey isn’t just about love. It’s about grief, survival, and the slow, painful art of learning to choose yourself. Of recognizing that healing doesn’t always come wrapped in closure or apology. Sometimes, it comes in solitude. In soft mornings. In red lipstick. In whispered forgiveness. If you’ve ever trusted someone who didn’t know how to hold you right—if you’ve ever tried to rebuild yourself from the pieces someone else left behind—this chapter is for you. You are not weak for hoping. You are not foolish for loving. And you are never, ever wrong for walking away when love stops feeling safe.