Kin's pov

I left the library because I couldn't stand it anymore.

The air in there was too suffocating—Cassian with his stormy grey eyes glued to the girl, Caleb with his silence as he got lost in thought, Verity pale and still beneath the fur with her stupid fucking scent.

I had never told anyone before but there was something about being in her presence that just rubbed off on me in a way that I wasn't sure was good or bad.

It pressed against me, thick and suffocating, and I needed ...