IVY
The sound of footsteps faded down the street. The low, muffled voices grew smaller, until they melted into the wind.
We were safe. For now.
I didn’t even realize I had been holding my breath until it left me all at once, my chest sagging against Kade’s.
I lifted my head from where it rested on his chest, the steady thump of his heart still strong beneath my ear. The cold from the cracked concrete floor seeped into my bones, but neither of us moved. We were still half-naked, wearing nothing but our underwear, the cold forgotten in the aftermath of everything we had just done.
I couldn’t believe it. Couldn’t believe after everything, after blood and fighting and almost dying, I had given myself to him again. My first and only. My safe place and my storm.
Kade shifted a little benea
