“Shouldn’t we just go out and get her?” Mike asked, his eyes narrowing as he peered through the kitchen window at where Matt and Cora were sitting outside.
“She’ll come in when she’s ready,” Kian replied blandly, his tone as detached and indifferent as ever, his gaze glued to his phone screen as his thumb casually scrolled without pause.
Me? I was freaking the hell out.
It had been way too long since Cora and I had been alone together—just the two of us—and the ache of it had started to feel physical. Emotional discomfort had shifted into something raw and almost painful, like I was missing a part of myself. It was like I’d developed a full-blown addiction to her presence, like she had burrowed under my skin and taken root in a way that wasn’t letting go anytime soon. The longer I had t
