Riley felt like a slap had been rendered to her face.
It left her face not only uncomfortably warm but it took away her voice.
Did he…did he know?
She let her head pull back and took in a deep breath as her eyes slowly filled with tears. She squeezed them shut, willing them to stop from falling before she opened them again.
But nothing much changed. The sight remained the same.
Him. Close. Too close for her liking.
Under normal circumstances, she would have appreciated this lack of distance between them. Her heart would have been at much more ease and her emotions wouldn’t have been swirling into a tornado.
But this…this was far from what she could have anticipated.
This…this was a disaster she never saw coming.
Riley didn’t know when it happened, or how, or why, but it only took
