Chapter 32

Cassidy's POV

I wasn’t ready for his words.

They knocked the breath right out of me.

I blinked, unsure if I’d heard him right.

But there was no teasing smirk, no guarded indifference. Just sincerity in his eyes. Unsettlingly raw sincerity. And something else, something even more raw. Want.

I didn’t know what to say. My brain scrambled to catch up with my heartbeat, which had taken off in a sprin