Lyris POV
The rain was still falling when I started back toward the dorm, soft and steady against the path, and I pulled my jacket tighter and kept walking without looking back.
The school grounds were mostly empty at this hour, just the occasional pair of students cutting through from one building to another, heads down against the drizzle. Nobody looked at me, nobody noticed anything.
Whatever just happened out there on the bench existed only between me and James and the rain, and I needed to keep it that way.
My head was clearer now than it was all evening, which was the strange thing about heat. It arrived like a storm and left the same way, sudden and complete, and what came after was always this particular kind of quiet that felt almost too calm for what just happened. My skin
