Nyla snorted in my head.
‘Maybe next time bite the pillow,’ she said.
I wanted to die from embarrassment.
“I shot myself in the leg, Sienna,” Maya cried.
I noticed she used my full name, and for some strange reason, I preferred Kael’s short form for me now. Si. It sounded sweet coming from him. It sounded like something that belonged only to us. I kept that to myself because Maya was already falling apart and did not need to hear me smiling over pet names while her life burned.
“I was too damn desperate,” Maya continued. “I should have waited. Maybe I would have found my Kael.”
She cried harder, and I held her because there was nothing else to do. She must have heard everything between us. Not just the sounds, but the words too. She had probably heard Kael tell me he loved me. She ha
