Chapter 276

• - Zade
• She was still in my arms, curled against my side like she belonged there. Because she did. No place in the world could compete with this—her skin against mine, her breath warming my chest, her heartbeat syncing with mine like we were one.
• But there was something else too. A tension in the air, electric and dangerous, the kind that came right before thunder cracked open the sky. And maybe it wasn’t coming from outside. Maybe it was coming from inside me. Because the second she shifted in my arms, looking up at me with that fire behind her eyes, the storm hit.