~Nathan~
I should have ended it right there.
I should have stepped back, put distance between us, reminded both of us of the line we were already standing too close to, and walked away like the man I had always been before she walked into my life and turned everything into something unrecognizable.
But the problem was simple.
I didn’t want to.
Standing there, looking at her, seeing the way her chest rose and fell unevenly like she was fighting herself just as much as I was, I realized something that made everything worse in the best and worst way possible.
This wasn’t one-sided.
It never had been.
And that truth broke whatever control I had left.
My hand finally moved, closing the small distance between us, fingers wrapping around her wrist gently but firmly, like I needed to feel
