KADE
I couldn't sleep.
Every time I closed my eyes, I saw Sera, felt her lips against mine, heard the vulnerability in her voice when she admitted she was scared.
I'd kissed her and I had no idea what I was doing.
Lydia had been dead for five years, five years of telling myself I'd never let anyone in again, never risk that kind of pain and then Sera had walked into my life or rather, I'd dragged her into it and everything I'd promised myself was falling apart.
I gave up on sleep around dawn and headed to the training grounds early, the compound was quiet, peaceful.
It wouldn't last, It never did.
Sera appeared twenty minutes later, right on time. She wore training clothes, her injured arm moving more freely now. When she saw me, she hesitated.
"Morning," she said.
"Morning." My v
