Chapter 247

Sienna

I didn’t have time to speak.

I didn’t even have time to breathe.

The door hadn’t fully swung open before Gideon moved—fast, decisive, as if the world had narrowed to a single point and I was it. His hands came up, framing my face, rougher than I remembered, desperate in a way that bypassed thought entirely.

And then his mouth was on mine.

Hard.

Unapologetic.

The sound I