Chapter 14 Unwanted Arrangements

• Averin's POV
• It had been days, five, to be exact, since I saw Maverick. Five long, exhausting days since I practically ran out of his room like my feet were on fire, and yet… I couldn’t stop thinking about it.
• Every time I sat down, every time I closed my eyes for even a second, my mind would replay it. The way he held my hand, the comment he made, as well as the heat I had felt in my chest, and the panic that seized me after.