Nico's POV

As we shake hands cordially, I can't help but feel a certain longing within me. I want much more than a handshake, something more intimate than that, but I don't know how to ask her. I don't know if it's time. The memory of our time together in the restaurant still comes to me, and I'm constantly reminded of how close we had been together then before... Well, I'm not quite sure who ruined it.

"You can let go now," she says with a strange smile on her face. I freeze immediately, ...