Sebastian
Julian's apartment looked different somehow, now that I could walk through the front door in broad daylight without checking first whether anyone was watching, without the practiced instinct to glance over my shoulder before I even reached for the buzzer.
"You're staring at the door like it personally wronged you," Julian said, amused, pulling me inside before I'd fully finished admiring the simple fact of walking through it openly.
"I'm just registering the novelty," I admitted. "Six years of side entrances and drawn blinds, and now I can just... walk in."
"Get used to it," Julian said, his smile soft in a way I hadn't seen from him in longer than I could remember, unguarded, without the careful watchfulness that had lived behind his eyes for as long as I'd known him. "Becau
