The kiss inside the garage changed everything. Not in a dramatic way that I expected. Nobody suddenly treated me differently or questioned whether I belonged around the Iron Vipers. If anything everyone simply carried on exactly as they had before except how Hunter had an endless supply of terrible jokes that somehow all revolved around me and Jace.
By Wednesday morning I had already threatened to throw three different rags at him.
He claimed that was progress but I called it self preservation.
I woke just after six, showers, brushed my teeth and got dressed before make coffee.
For the first in years I wasn’t waking up wondering what disaster waited around the corner.
Instead, I caught myself wondering when I’d see Jace and that realization made me smile. It almost made me nervous
