[Leo’s POV]
I stare at Rue, noting the look of determination on her beautiful face and the stubbornness in her blue eyes, and when I consider letting her do what she wants, a conflicting feeling rushes through me.
No. The small voice in the back of my head says. You can’t take that step because it could lead to something more.
How? I question it. She just wants to comfort me because we are sharing a similar hard time.
Right. Why was I being so on guard when this was nothing more than a sense of camaraderie?
But then… She confessed to me, and I wasn’t certain that the time we spent apart caused her crush to disappear, but then again, she was spending a lot of time with Mykel. Did that mean that they were possibly…
I don’t finish my thought as an odd emotion rushes through me, and as I
