Chapter 215

{Harper's POV}

The words sat there in the air between us, and neither of us rushed to fill the quiet that followed.

"You don't like my answer?" I finally asked. "I thought this was what you wanted. I mean— I felt like it was."

"It is," he said. "It was." He paused, choosing the words more carefully than he usually bothered to. "Two reasons. One— you going back to school full-time, once the semeste