Blaze:
After leaving Saint’s, I swung my leg over the seat of my bike, that damn conversation playing on loop in my head.
Love.
Hell of a word. Heavy. Too big to say out loud. But it didn’t feel so impossible when I thought about Kat. About how she moved through my world like she’d always been meant to be in it. She made space where there wasn’t any. She filled the silence in a way that didn’t make me want to run.
And tonight, I’d decided.
She was going to stay.
Not just because it was safe. Not because Viper was gone or because she had nowhere else to go.
She was going to stay because I was going to give her a reason to. I’d make her feel like this place was hers, not just mine.
She was mine.
We grabbed food on the way back—she was starving, and I couldn’t stop watching the way s
