CONNOR POV
*I was Made for loving you - YUNGBLOD, Dominic Lewis*
There. I said it — and in the same breath, I knew I’d shattered something.
The words were out before I could stop them, hanging in the air between us like a storm ready to break.
She stood there, her lips parted, her eyes wide.
Brown and gold—like whiskey catching sunlight.
Those eyes had already killed me once. Now they were doing it again.
But this time, it wasn’t curiosity or annoyance flickering behind them.
It was disbelief.
Her heartbeat hitched, then raced. I could hear it—feel it—like a drum under my skin. My own pulse followed, syncing with hers in a rhythm I couldn’t stop even if I wanted to.
Cain stirred in the back of my head, his voice a low growl.
“You’re scaring her, i***t. She doesn’t believe you.”
