My brain screamed at me to untangle. To reclaim my space. To remember all the rules I’d built to survive the last ten years.
But my body wasn’t listening. My body was sinking, inch by inch, into the warmth. Into them.
They smelled like safety, like woods and pine and sage, like spices on stormy night and trouble. Definetly trouble for me.
I hadn’t let anyone touch me since that night. Not really.
Now, they were wrapped around me like I belonged to them.
The worst part?
I didn’t feel scared.
I felt whole.
Keegan shifted in my lap again, rubbing his cheek against my thigh before exhaling a breath that sent heat crawling up my neck. His lips brushed my skin, then settled.
Kyle murmured something incoherent into my shoulder. His hand was still beneath the hoodie, fingertips grazing sk
