KAIA'S POV.
I followed Leander into the house, my eyes scanning around automatically. The living room felt oddly empty, and the rest of the house felt too quiet for an afternoon.
“Where is everyone?” I asked, my voice sounding smaller than I meant it to. Because let's be honest, when I agreed to come home with Leander, this wasn't what I had in mind. This wasn't part of the plan. I didn't plan to stay in the house all alone with him. Not because I didn't trust him, I did. I trusted Leander more than I should trust someone I haven't known for that long. It was me I didn't trust. Myself, and this strange feeling I kept having whenever I was around him that I was still yet to understand what it meant. Staying alone in the house with him felt like a trap, a temptation I wasn't sure I was str
