KAIA'S POV
For weeks, I'd battled and struggled with my feelings. Every time Leander’s hand brushed mine, every time his eyes lingered a little too long on my face, every single time he kissed me, I felt that spark flare inside me—hungry, restless, impossible to ignore. We lived in a crazy world, filled with things we didn't even want to know, but with him, there was always this calm. A safety.
And yet, that safety had become its own kind of torture.
He never pushed, never pressured, never crossed a line, never asked for more than I was ready to give. Tonight, though, something inside me snapped—not in anger, but in a surge of wanting that refused to stay buried.
All this while, he had allowed everything to move at my pace. He respected every wall I put between us. But tonight, I was d
