RONAN
Iris's text glowed on my screen, simple and direct.
Iris: Front door is unlocked.
I stared at it for a moment, a grin spreading across my face. I was driving across the territory in the middle of the night like a teenager sneaking out of his parents' house, and I couldn't remember the last time I had felt this alive.
We are behaving like pups, Black observed, but there was amusement in his voice
I know. I replied.
It feels good.
It did. Something about the spontaneity of it, made me feel like a part of me that had been dormant for years was waking up. The part of me that had died somewhere along the way with Elara. The reckless part that did not overthink thinks. Tonight, I was just a man driving to see the woman he wanted.
I had loved Elara. I had loved her completely, but
