CHAPTER THIRTY-EIGHT
ELLA’S POV
This feels perfect and I’m strangely relaxed. It's almost as though my body has slowed down and the thoughts that are usually screaming in my mind, seem much more paced and quieter now. I gaze out of the window of Adam’s car, watching students getting drunk. The more I stared at them, the more I began to take notice. Maybe life is f****d up but when they are here, nothing else in the world seemed to matter; not even their problems.
My brain drifts back to the heartwarming moment before. Adam had his hand hooked his arm over my shoulder and at that moment I’d wanted to snuggle deeper. He’d smelled good- like a rich, leathery scent with a comforting, warm sweetness.
“She is with me,”
Those words-those damn words-in that tight, deep voice. He’d almost s
