Chapter 138

SIENNA

Gideon didn’t let go for a long time.

And I didn’t ask him to.

His arms were steel around me, but his touch was careful, like I might shatter if he held too tight. My cheek was pressed against his chest, every slow, deliberate beat of his heart hammering into me like a metronome trying to drag me back into rhythm.

I focused on that sound. On the heat radiating off him. On the faint scra