Breathless Surrender

“Because it’s easier to miss you than to look you in the eye.”

The moment those words left her lips, something shattered inside him.

That simple confession tore through the walls Kaelen had spent years building—walls of control, distance, denial. All crumbling in the space between her breath and his heartbeat.

But he didn’t move.

Didn’t pounce.

Because restraint was all he had left.

His body