“Talk to your man, Tessa,” he pleaded with me softly, his dark eyes locking onto mine with an unyielding intensity that demanded total honesty between us. “Please do not shut me out behind your walls right now. Tell me what is breaking your heart.”
I took a long, shaky, and completely uneven breath, my chest heaving as the first wave of hot tears began to well up in the corners of my eyes, blurring my vision.
“I am so incredibly scared, Stone,” I whispered out into the quiet space of the room, my voice shaking so violently that it barely sounded like my own. “Last night… the exact second you rode out of those iron gates for that raid, I sat completely alone in this dark bedroom for hours and hours. My mind wouldn't stop playing the most horrible scenarios. I kept wondering if you were ev
