Nicholas’s lips were soft. His touch light, a barely-there caress, as he held my face so near to his own.
I didn’t register the sound of a door opening at first, so fully engrossed as I was with the man in front of me. It wasn’t until I fluttered my eyes open and saw a figure walking past, that I startled into wakefulness.
It was a girl I didn’t recognize, wearing an oversized hoodie and shorts. She had wireless headphones over her ears with the music blasting. She must have been the new roommate because my old bedroom door was opened.
I held my breath, expecting some kind of reaction to seeing a prince and a woman she probably didn’t know kissing in her living room, but the girl seemed totally unfazed.
She walked into the kitchen, retrieved a drink from the fridge, and then walked st
