Nyx's Pov
I didn’t plan to fall in love. Not with Caspian.
Every day, it got harder to lie to myself. Harder to stay in his house and not want more than what we had agreed on. The more time I spent around him, the more I started to crave the things I thought I could never have.
I was falling in love with a man I had no business falling for. A man who scared me. A man who made me feel safe. A man I didn’t want to need, but I did.
Caspian.
He had become everything. And that scared me more than anything.
I needed to get out. Just for a while. I needed to breathe. Think. I needed to remember who I was before he kissed me, touched me, held me like I was the only thing in the world that mattered.
I needed to stop seeing him everywhere I turned in the house. His scent was everywhere. It
