ADRIANO'S POV~
The moment her scent hit me, every taut muscle in my body melted. f**k. My entire system went lax as I pulled her tighter into my arms, burying my face in her hair and breathing her in like she was the last drop of oxygen in a world gone toxic.
God, this woman was my drug. My anchor. My goddamn undoing.
"I missed you so f*****g much, tesoro," I whispered into her hair, my voice hoarse, soaked in everything I hadn’t said since we fought. "Couldn’t sleep without you next to me. Couldn’t even breathe right."
For the first time all day, I started to relax. Her warmth against me, the rise and fall of her chest, the faint scent of her shampoo—f**k, I was drifting. I’d just begun to doze off, barely halfway to peace, when she stirred.
And shoved me.
What the—
My eyes snapped
