Jessica's POV
He woke me in the middle of the night with his mouth on my neck and his voice low against my skin.
“I’m done pretending.”
I blinked into the dark. Kane was already cupping my breast, bare chest warm against my back, one arm locked around my waist like he had every right to be there.
“Kane…”
“I’m keeping you.” He turned to face me. His eyes were steady in the low light from the window.
“Secret or not. Family or not. I’m done acting like this is temporary. You’re mine. I’m not letting you go.”
The house was quiet around us. My mother and his father slept down the hall. One wrong sound, one open door at the wrong moment, and everything would collapse. We both knew it. The danger had become part of the air we breathed.
I had spent days turning it over in my head. The sa
