The Risk of Trust

An anchor.

Was that what she’d become?

He didn’t know how to be soft. He didn’t know how to trust someone to hold him without using it against him later. Every relationship in his past had come with rules, expectations, power plays. This—she—was different.

Lyra wasn’t born from his world. She didn’t crave the power or the luxury. She didn’t flinch at his coldness or chase the status.

The car ro