✤ Adrian ✤
When Sera had left for her shift at the library, we had shared a kiss before she had slipped away. And that kiss did more damage to my equilibrium than anything scandalous we had done so far. It wasn’t the kiss itself. It was the ease. The comfort. The quiet trust in her eyes when she said she would be back later. It made me want to give her something. Something that wasn’t just stolen time or whispered affection behind locked doors. Something that proved my feelings went deeper than desire. But that was the problem, everything between us had to be behind closed doors. I couldn’t take her out to dinner. I couldn’t walk with her through town. I couldn’t do any of the normal things a man should be able to do for the woman he cared about.
And that realization hit me harder than I
