Ever since I’d told him I loved him, something had shifted between us.
The careful walls we had built—those invisible barriers that kept our emotions contained and our vulnerabilities hidden—were gone. In their place was something rawer, more electric. It buzzed between us, a restless current that refused to fade.
It was in the way his eyes lingered on me when he thought I wasn’t looking, in the subtle curve of his lips like he was remembering something only he had the right to. It was in the way my own breath caught whenever he stepped too close, my heartbeat tripping over itself like it was trying to keep up with his presence. Every brush of his arm against mine, every glance across a room—it all carried a silent weight now.
And tonight, that energy was impossible to ignore.
We’d wan
