Days turned into weeks, and our secret remained safe within the confines of the office. However, life had a strange way of revealing truths, and the first inkling of our clandestine relationship soon appeared, albeit from an unexpected source.

My boss's wife had begun to suspect something was amiss. Her intuition told her that her husband was seeing someone else, but the thought that it could be another man, let alone a transgender man, was something she couldn’t fathom.

She started digging, looking for clues in his behavior, his mannerisms. She noticed he seemed distracted, his mind always elsewhere. He was frequently on his phone, and he'd sometimes laugh at text messages he would quickly lock away. Their conversations had grown less frequent, and there was a certain distance between them that wasn’t there before.

In her heart, she knew something was going on. She just couldn't put her finger on what exactly it was. She knew her husband was drifting away, but she was yet to discover the whole truth. Little did she know that this truth was going to change everything.

Our secret bubble was in danger of being burst, and the implications of that were enormous. But we were blissfully unaware of the looming storm. Our world was about to collide with reality, and we were on a collision course we couldn't escape.