Chapter 207

{Harper's POV}

“I'm not ready.”

Two days later, and the phrase still hadn't stopped looping through my head, catching on the same three words every time like a scratch in a record.

I'd panicked, that day on the couch. That was the honest, unglamorous version of it. I wasn't ready for that — for him, for us, for whatever that specific evolution of *us* actually meant — and the second the thought cr