But, but, but.
I’m one of the Thornes. I’m my brothers’ sister. I know better.
So I should look away, and I do.
Well, I try to.
Because the moment I make the decision to look away,hedecides to look up at me.
And I step back.
As if someone has pushed me. As ifhehas pushed me. He has put his hands on me and I had to step back,hadto, under the weight of his touch.
The strength of his gaze, his wolf eyes that land right on me.
And now that he has found me, he’s not letting me go.
He’s absolutelynotletting me leave. My legs won’t even move. They won’t.
Because they somehow, the traitors, know that he wants me here.
It’s in the way that he slowly straightens up, the way he completely abandons interest in the girl beside him. It’s in the way something breaks open on his face, on his gorgeous,gorgeousface made up of sharp, smooth, fascinating lines as soon as he sees me.
Something that looks a lot like interest. Curiosity.
Something that makes his pretty eyes go slightly wide followed by a tiny smirk on his lips.
It’s like… he’s excited that I’m here.
It’s like he’s thinking,now the fun begins…
I’m not sure how I know all of this. But I do.
It’s not as if I’m an expert on Reed Roman Jackson.
I mean, we haven’t even talked before.
This may be the first time that he’s looked at me, and this morning when I woke up, I had no idea that today would be the day he’d look at me for the first time ever.
So yeah, I have no clue how I know all this except that I feel exposed under his eyes. I feel vulnerable and fragile. I feel like I’ve somehow walked into an evil den.
His evil den.
Which isn’t that far from the truth.
Iamin his evil den and I need to move. Right now.
I need to run. I need to…
Suddenly there’s a commotion and Reed’s attention breaks away from me. And I think I draw my first breath since he found me in this chaos.
It’s Tempest. The source of commotion, I mean. She’s running toward Reed.
Yikes.
I’d completely forgotten about her. I don’t even know when she broke away from me and made her way through the crowd to go to her brother.
Who definitely looks surprised right now.
