He'd waited so long, longer than he ever thought he'd get the chance to. My emotions were a tangled mess. I had so many questions. "How did you know I'm Daphne?"
He didn't answer right away, just leaned down, kissing my forehead gently. "I'll tell you later."
I spilled everything to Tessa, and her face was a slideshow of reactions. "Daphne, you know what we'd call someone like you back in my time?"
"What?" I leaned in, curious. Tessa always had some wild, newfangled term up her sleeve.
She wasn't from this world—I'd known that for a while. She grinned, playing it mysterious. "A player. From Theodore to Colton, you're racking up quite the tab of romantic debts. Like the saying goes, you owe too much, you gotta pay up—even in a new skin."
I rolled my eyes, speechless. Tessa nudged me. "
