(Noah)
She kissed me back.
I pulled her closer and she came without resistance and for a moment everything else stopped. The photograph on the table. The lockdown. Crane. All of it fell away and there was just her and the way she kissed me when she stopped fighting it.
Then her hands pressed against my chest.
She stepped back and looked at me. Not the wall. Not the composure she kept for everyone else. Just Reese, aware of exactly what had just happened and not entirely comfortable with that.
"I'm going back to my room," she said.
"Reese."
I moved toward her.
She put one hand up between us. "Not tonight."
I stopped.
She held my gaze for one more second. Then she turned and walked out and the door closed behind her and I stood there and listened to her footsteps moving down the ha
