Chapter 165

• Lily’s POV
• I returned his kiss—awkwardly, but persistently—while my palms continued to stroke his tense muscles, as if I were calming a wounded, frenzied animal.
• He remembered two years ago… The thought hit me like ice-cold water. The heir to Green Park, who had been trained to be unbreakable, had been so badly injured that he’d been in a coma for a year and a half… That ambush had carved a shadow into his soul, deeper and harder than I could ever have imagined.