I sighed. “It’s complicated.”
Her tone softened. “Because there’s four of them?”
“Because there’s a lot you don’t know.”
Because they’re all mine.
And now they know it.
Because I lied to their faces. I wore a charm to block the bond. I made a choice and now I’m sinking in it.
Because Keegan kissing my hand shouldn’t feel like oxygen.
But it does.
Marley just held my gaze. “Be careful.”
“I’m not falling,” I whispered.
She didn’t call me on the lie. Just handed me a real chart and let me go.
But even hours later—scrubbing in, checking vitals, talking patients through pain—I still felt it.
The press of his mouth on my skin.
That look in his eyes like he saw right through every wall I’d built.
And maybe—just maybe—he liked what he saw.
Which scared the hell out of me.
Because p
