Antonio didn’t know how to take Tara’s reaction. If he were to be completely honest with himself, he had expected something far worse… but still, he had hoped for outright acceptance as well. So although her reaction was entirely legitimate, he couldn’t help but feel slightly offended.
Was she not attracted to him the way he was to her?
To him, she was basically the center of his universe - his sun. And his world began and ended with her. Ever since he had met her, the attraction had turned into an infatuation, and then soon became an addiction - a sweet addiction.
Sure, the feelings hadn’t come from naught, they had developed over the course of four whole years. But he would have sworn at least their chemistry was undeniable, if nothing else.
As she asked for a month to think things
