CHAPTER 56
Skye's POV
Five days.
Five days of no contact and this time it was my choice. Not Ethan's. Not the contract. Not some outside force pulling us apart. I was the one keeping the door shut‚ clinging to a question that had been eating me alive since the moment Thorne told me the truth.
Like… Why?
Why would a twenty-four-year-old man risk everything to watch a fourteen-year-old girl sleep? What could possibly drive someone like Thorne‚ someone so controlled‚ so calculated‚ so deliberately careful about every move he made‚ to do something that reckless? He wasn't stupid. He had never been stupid. So what was it about me‚ at fourteen‚ that broke through every wall he had?
It didn't make sense. There was a piece missing. A very important piece of information that was missing and
