Jane’s POV
I didn't push him away immediately because my heart and my mind wrestle against each other.
The few seconds his lips lingered on mine were the most confusing and overwhelming seconds of my life. My heart raced, pounding hard against my chest like it was trying to break free. It screamed at me to stay, to lean in, to forget everything else and just feel him.
But my mind was a storm. A whirlwind of everything he had done… everything he had said… everything he had refused to see.
Even as my mind and heart went to war to make a decision, my body reacted first. It always did with him.
There was something about his touch… Something dangerously familiar, something that tugged the unreasonable part of me.
But my mind won this time so I pushed him. The impact was hard enough to
