He Knew My Voice Day One

Summary

I lied about my age and spent three months in a purely digital, voice-only relationship with a man six years older than me.

Over the phone, his voice was a masterclass in gentle restraint. But when the hours bled into the middle of the night, it would drop into a gravelly, resonant register, trembling just a fraction when he called me "baby".

But I lost my nerve.

The day I decided to break it off, I blocked and deleted him across every platform. I didn't even leave him a single word of explanation.