Cerys :
I bit my tongue. And it felt bitter in my mouth.
He was nervous as it was, this had to be a 'one battle at a time' thing. Declan was his best friend. He was Callaghan's Kevin. I recalled chatting to Aileen upstairs in the hotel, hearing how Declan had been a friend to Trent when he had no one else, when his marriage to Maddy had broken down. I shouldn't care, I kept telling myself to keep cool, to maintain my distance but being close to him I almost felt myself spinning into his orbit. Unable to move away nor fight the cacophony of emotions barreling through me. Watching him so preoccupied, distracting himself with the view beyond the wing of the plane, or absently flicking through his phone squeezed at my heart more than it logically should.
I laid my head on his shoulder, feel
