Aria’s POV.
It had been a week since Kael kissed me.
A whole week since I froze like an i***t and did absolutely nothing.
I kept replaying it in my head...the way his breath brushed my skin, the way he’d held my face like it actually meant something. Every time the memory hit me, I groaned and dropped my head into my hands.
“Stupid,” I whispered. “You’re so stupid.”
My wolf wasn’t helping either. “You didn’t stop him because you didn’t want to,” she murmured inside me.
I glared at nothing. “You’re wrong.”
“Am I?”
I pressed my palms against my temples. “Shut up.”
The worst part wasn’t even the kiss itself. It was what came after. The silence. Cassian hadn’t called. He hadn’t texted. He hadn’t even shown up in my dreams. It was like he’d seen what happened that night and just erase
