Closing In

{Harper’s POV}

For a moment, I thought I was imagining it.

Not in a dramatic, “I’ve lost my grip on reality” kind of way. Just a simple, hopeful kind of delusion— the kind where your brain sees something it doesn’t like and immediately tries to correct it.

That’s not him.

That cannot be him.

Except… it was. I couldn’t deny the physicality.

I stood there, right at the edge of the crowd, watching as