Asteria's POV.
"Honesty then"
Xavier took a large intake of breath before averting his gaze from me. Staring at his side profile under the little light from the moon was really entrancing. He looked extremely beautiful and it was making my heart flutter in my chest.
"I was avoiding you" he said, still not looking at me.
To hear it despite knowing it was a tug to my heart. I wondered why we were always having a back and forth. When I felt we had grown closer, there was another invisible line that would now appear to make us take steps backwards.
I didn't answer hoping that he would continue and he did.
"And before you think it was because of that night, it wasn't" relief despite little washed through me. I had spent nights and days wondering and asking if there was something I d
