Please Don't Read, Unless I'm Dead

Uncovering the secret was easy, living to tell about it might not be. Jamal was still settling into his new role, one brought on not by choice but necessity, when he learned a secret about his employer. As the days passed, the secret slowly ate away at him. It was a secret he felt he had to tell the world, yet when the opportunity arose to tell his girlfriend, something prevented him from doing so. Was it just his selfish, closed-off personality that refused to confide in her or was it something more, a desire to keep her safe? And how long could he keep the secret before it destroyed him from within?