Rowan’s POV
I hadn’t expected to find her standing outside my apartment door. When the elevator doors slid open and I stepped out, exhausted from the day’s chaos, she was the first thing I saw, Liora, leaning against the wall like she’d been fighting sleep and losing. Her head jerked up the moment she heard my footsteps.
“There you are,” she said, relief flooding her voice before she quickly tried to hide it. “You’re finally back.”
For a second, I actually stopped walking. I was stunned. I didn’t know what surprised me more, the fact that she was here, at my door, clearly having waited… or the way her eyes lit up when she saw me. She didn’t even try to disguise it. That alone tugged something in my chest, something inconvenient that I’d been trying to ignore all week.
“What,”
