KAIA'S POV
For a long moment, I just lay there staring at him, barely breathing as I tried to process what he just said.
I couldn’t wrap my head around it.
He’d said it so simply, like it was the most natural thing in the world. He'd said that he loved me. Loved me, with all the mess I’d just spilled at his feet? How was that even possible?
We hadn’t even known each other that long. Not really. And yet he’d looked me right in the eyes, seen every broken piece, and still said it. Why? …
Part of me wanted to believe him so badly it hurt, but another part of me couldn’t understand how someone could feel something so deep, so quickly.
It didn’t make sense. Nothing about this made sense.
My phone buzzed in my pocket, startling me a little. I hesitated, then murmured, “Sorry… let me chec
