*Vanessa*

“I can’t believe you actually took in the Helbane defectors,” I say, running my hand across Shawn’s forearm.

Lying cocooned against his body, I feel so at peace. We slipped away from the party again, wanting to catch up on everything that happened over the last few days, but we were so exhausted that we ended up just falling asleep wrapped up in each other. The mutual confession we shared seems to have altered something between ...