LIORA’S POV
I did not know what I was doing.
That was the only honest thing I could say about it. My heart was slamming against my ribs and my skin felt like it had been turned inside out, every nerve ending raw and close to the surface, and I was standing in the water with my hands dropped to my sides and Lucas was staring at me like I had lost my mind.
Maybe I had.
I had never felt anything like this before. It was not the slow warmth I sometimes felt when he was near, the pull I had been trying to name and dismiss in equal measure for weeks now. This was something else entirely. Something louder. It had started the moment I saw him at the edge of the trees and it had been building ever since, a pressure in my chest that radiated outward until my whole body felt like it was running a
