AERIS
I woke up early, packed light a few days' worth of clothes shoved into a duffel bag, because I fully intended to spend most of the week wearing considerably less than that anyway and had just zipped it shut when my phone buzzed on the dresser.
*Ronan:* “ I'll meet you on the way out of town. Don't come to the church.”
I stared at that for a second, thumb hovering.
Made sense, obviously, no version of him climbing into my car in the church parking lot in broad daylight ended well for either of us, but there was still something about the bluntness of it that made my stomach flip in that particular way it always did whenever he decided to just tell me what he wanted instead of asking.
*Me:* “Bossy, even by text.”
*Ronan:* “You like it.”
*Me:* “Unfortunately.”
I threw on a pair
