She looked up at him to see his eyes focusing on the shadows that rushed into the alley. They both stayed quiet about it.
When they reached her building, she stopped under the overhang, her breath forming small clouds in the chill.
Zane turned to her, the faintest smile ghosting over his lips. “Thanks for tonight.”
“For what?” she asked softly, forgetting about the shadows.
“For saying yes. For trying…with me.”
Lilith took a slow step closer. “You didn’t make it easy,” she murmured, her tone teasing but her eyes serious.
He smiled, but his gaze flicked down to her lips, then back up. “I don’t think easy is what either of us signed up for.”
The air between them shifted. Denser. Warmer.
Lilith’s heartbeat thudded, slow and deep, in the quiet. She could feel it, the pull, the magneti
