NICK POV
The drive was quiet, but not in a bad way. It was the kind of silence that hummed between two people who felt too , I just realized I accidentally uploaded the wrong chapter earlier. It's been corrected now—apologies for the mix-up and thank you
but weren’t ready to say everything. Not yet.
I glanced at Nara.
She was staring out the window like it was easier to watch the world blur past than to look at me. Her lips were pursed. Her shoulders tight. She was holding herself back—again.
And I got it. Hell, I deserved it.
The old me—the i***t who said it would always be Jane—he broke her. The thought made my chest tighten.
But this me? The man driving with one hand because the other was itching to hold hers?
I was his now. Hopeless. Hungry. Entirely, stupidly in love.
I reac
