#Chapter 84: The Kiss

Tessa & Gideon

Tessa

Gideon’s lips left mine just briefly so that we could come up for air, and as we inhaled deeply and raggedly, the space between us felt like it hummed with static, the air thick and heavy like a grassy field just before a storm.

My heart was racing like a warm drum in my chest, each beat loud and insistent, like it was trying to make itself heard above the rush of blood in my