(Harper’s POV)
I woke up enveloped in the warmth of arms wrapped around me. Elias’ scent surrounded me, and I felt a peace inside me that I hadn’t felt in a really long time. If ever at all. I laid there, not wanting to break the spell. And I know that there was some small part in me that wanted to hold on to this feeling like my life depended on it. And yet there was a bigger part that was scared, scared of allowing me to be taken in, to trust someone else fully with that broken part of me. To see beyond the shield and see how f****d up I really was. Because what if they saw that and they rejected me? What if they decided that there were too many pieces to fix and what if, after showing them the truth about what I was, they left me there, exposed to my own feelings? And no way to know ho
