AARON’S POV
This silence was as deafening as it was unnerving. As much as I wish I could apply a confirming hand to her thigh as any lover would, I wasn’t allowed the luxury as I couldn’t be anything but what I was. This shadow, always just out of reach, her well-being my primary focus. But I would have given almost anything just to ease that crease between her brows. The one I knew was from her uncertainty that I could protect her. And even if I couldn’t ensure this myself, I would use my last breath to do it, if necessary.
“What did he mean?” My eyes shot to her immediately, the relief evident in my expression, before I looked back to the road once again, “When he said it was the only way…that you couldn’t really protect me…That you can’t…touch me…” The words were brittle on her tongu
