NARRATOR’S POV

The change didn’t happen all at once.

Aria noticed it in the small things that she didn’t know had slowly begun to break her walls.

It was in the way Kane listened now.

It was in how he knelt when speaking to Jason, never towering over him, never rushing him.

It was in how he no longer interrupted.

The way he didn’t command or control the air in the room like he used to.

The way he seemed to have changed from the ruthless Kane she knew.

And that made her feel more ...