✤ Adrian ✤
For a long moment, neither of us moved. Sera stood in my kitchen with the key I had given her tucked safely into her pocket, her cheeks still flushed from our first kiss. Her eyes were soft, almost shy in a way I hadn’t seen before, and something inside me loosened at the sight. The tension I had been carrying since this morning, the panic, the guilt, the worry, drained a little. Not enough to calm me completely. But enough to breathe.
“Come on,” I said quietly. My voice felt different. Warmer. Less guarded. “Let’s go sit,” she nodded, and I placed my hand on the small of her back to guide her toward the living room. She didn’t pull away. Instead, she leaned into the touch just slightly, and that small, unconscious gesture did something to me. Something dangerous. Something go
