WITH ALL THE strength I could muster, I pushed him away from me.
Kaden seemed surprised at my rebuke. He blinked away the confusion and the tension as I stepped away from him. We were staring eye to eye, looking at the single space between us, sort of like it was an invisible barricade that prevented us from ever being together. Kaden wanted to reach for me. But I took another step back. I didn’t want to touch him now.
I didn’t trust myself.
I didn’t want to give in to the temptation.
“Get away from me,” I warned as I saw that he was trying to get to me again. “Go away.”
“Are you kicking me away?”
“I think you should go back.”
Hurt. That flashed through his amber eyes, deep within their sockets. It was amazing how quickly he hid it though because in the next second, everything was
