~ Adeline ~

I stare at Cassian, my heart pounding in my chest, the question hanging between us like a raised blade. His whisper,

"Yes" resounds in my ears, but it is indistinctive, teasing, leaving me dangling on the edge of uncertainty. The room feels smaller, the air thicker, charged with the weight of unspoken truths.

Cassian's dark, dark eyes hold mine captive, but there's something flickering in them, something tender beneath the surface of his restrained mask of control. He stands over ...