Sitting in his house didn’t feel wrong. If anything, being with him felt almost comfortable. He made me feel at ease. And we were now discussing the one thing I had wanted to chat about… but I may have slipped up again, in implying that the moon goddess had talked to me about him. The moment I mentioned that, I saw the way his eyes lit up. Like a spark of hope had been ignited deep inside of him. I could not risk giving him any more hope than he already seemed to hold… a hope that had never made any sense to me.
“Aria?” his voice was a little unsure now, and I turned to him, slowly, only to find those big blue eyes watching me intently as they so often did.
“Yes, Rocco.”
“What do you mean, like me?”
I shrugged. “I don’t know.” I dismissed it, hoping I could get away with that, but
