Her soft, shallow breaths tickle the exposed skin on my neck as I hold her close to my chest. She fell asleep some time ago, but I didn’t dare go back to the academy. Too many eyes and too many questions that not a damn one of them deserved the answers too.
Thank f**k Phantom stepped away from her when he did because another second of watching him panic over what was mine was going to send me into a spiral that wouldn’t have ended well.
‘She wants to accept us. Can’t you see that she’s suffering,’ Orion snarled. ‘Your distance is only making things worse, you stupid prick.’
A bead of sweat annoyingly slid down my face, dripping off my jawline and landing in Bailey’s hair.
This woman in my arms is going to destroy everything I’ve ever known. I’ve built my life around these walls that
