Gael’s POV

Somehow I was giddy and nervous all at once. I’d been on dates with Ellie before, we all had, but there had been this invisible wall before. Less nerves and more like…a distance between us.

I suppose it was because there’d been so much we hadn’t told each other, so much we didn’t know.

Ellie’s father was apparently a bastard. She had no desire to talk about him, and really, it hadn’t been relevant until he made himself a threat like ...