Chapter Thirty: Cold Embrace

NOVA POV

“Why can’t I face you when we fuck? Why can’t I touch you?”

My question was met with the loudest silence I’ve ever experienced and trust me, I’ve lived through enough heavy silences to be an unofficial connoisseur.

This is the kind of silence that makes the hair at the back of your neck prickle like you’ve walked into a cemetery at midnight

I wasn’t even sure if he was breathing anymore. I slowly turned, inch by inch, bracing myself like ...