I could still hear echoes of his footsteps as they still lingered in the hall long after Ace had left. I stood frozen, arms crossed tightly against my chest, my pulse hammering in my ears. I couldn’t shake his words out of my head as they felt like they replayed in my mind on a relentless loop. 

I wanted to be angry. I wanted to stay there, seething, and tell myself that he was nothing but arrogant, reckless, and impossible to deal with. But instead, I found my feet moving ...