As Alejandro stepped closer and tightened his heart around her waist, Elise’s heart took triple beats against its walls. For a moment, the world around her seemed to blur, even as the piercing gaze from the people that gathered nearby clearly reminded her that she was in a gathering like this. And she was the stranger.
Alejandro’s scent which smelled like cinnamon spice and cedar wood consumed her completely and in no time, the only thing she thought was how beautiful it felt to be protected by him.
“Are you too shy to respond? I know I was gone for quite a moment.”
Elise lowered her face and then muttered softly. “I did not miss you.”
He stared at her with a smile for a moment, which seemed like an eternity but once he lifted it to Clara and the rest of the people it disappeared. An
