Chapter Seventeen
The next seven days showed me a completely different side of Khalid that I had never fully seen or experienced before.
He didn’t push me to let him stay overnight at my apartment after he recovered from his cold. He didn't assume that one conversation on my couch meant that everything was suddenly perfectly fine between us. Instead, he gave me all the physical and emotional space I asked for, while still finding ways to prove to me every single day that he was completely serious about earning my broken trust back.
It all started the very next morning after I told him I would give him that one final chance.
I woke up to a loud knock on my front door. When I opened it, a delivery man was standing there holding a massive, beautiful bouquet of fresh white roses. Tucked r
