SERAPHINA
What just happened?
The river swallowed us whole in a blink as cold water surged over my skin, but I barely felt it. Not when his arms were still locked around me, not when his body shielded mine as we plunged deeper. My eyes opened to the blur of bubbles rising around us, light from the surface breaking through in fractured beams.
That was when I saw him.
Ronan’s face was so close to mine, his dark gaze burning even through the water. The world slowed, muted, leaving only the two of us suspended in the current. His steady hold on me never faltered, as if the river itself could not tear me away from him.
A part of me screamed to fight, to break free. But the spell of his lips hovering close to mine…it cracked me wide open. It was not until the heat of his hard chest press
