Chapter 29 Irresistible Gravity

• Max****
• The air between us crackled with something unspoken, something raw—an untamed hunger that neither of us dared to name. Even as I stepped back to give her space, I could feel the pull—like a magnet, like gravity, like she was the only thing keeping me anchored in a world that made no sense without her.
• Sara’s eyes lingered on me, dark with a storm of emotions she couldn’t voice. She looked fragile and unbreakable all at once—like a bird on the edge of flight, torn between the safety of my arms and the fear of falling all over again.