Lila looked at the warm coffee cup in her hands, then up at his exhausted, handsome face. A soft, breathless laugh escaped her lips, dissolving the heavy weight of guilt that had been pressing down on her chest all morning.
"I missed you too," she said, setting her coffee next to his bags and stepping straight into his space, wrapping her arms around his waist and burying her face against his chest.
Ryker exhaled a long, heavy breath, wrapping one arm tightly around her shoulders and resting his chin against the top of her head.
"I'm sorry about last night," he muttered into her hair. "Coach ran us ragged, and by the time I called—"
"Stop," Lila said softly, pulling back just enough to look up into his dark eyes, her fingers resting against the front of his hoodie. "Do not apologize. I
