Chapter 69

We didn’t speak, didn’t move for a long time. Just held each other, holding tight knowing this moment would be fleeting. But this was the first time in two years someone hugged me and I’d be damned if I was going to waste it.

“Vance?”

He hummed into my shoulder and it sent a wave a goosebumps over my skin.

“Thank you.”

Lifting his head up, Vance looked at me in the eyes. “How can you say that?