ANNA
“IT’S BEAUTIFUL...” I told him in a whispery voice after a long moment. “Thank you for distracting me enough to get me here.”
“I knew you’ll like it.” His voice was soft and intimate beside me.
I turned my face towards him. The shadows on his face made him looked mysterious. But he was like that in real life. “I love it. I think you know I’ll do, anyway. I’d never have experienced anything like this if not for you.”
He sighed. “But…?”
I smiled a little. “You’re still scary as fuck.”
He grinned. Shadows played on the planes and crevices of his handsome face as I watched. “I don’t want you to get scared of me. You’re not my enemy.”
I felt it strange he would say it like that. “What am I?”
He was silent for a moment, and I knew it was because whatever words he was going to use, h
