Uninvited Whispers

ROWAN’S POV

I wake with his voice still rooted in my chest.

‘I might do the same.’

The words have been sitting under my ribs since the aurora, intimate and warm and terrifying in equal measure.

I said them. Or almost said them. Stood under those impossible lights with Vance looking at me like I was the only thing in the universe that mattered, and I almost told him everything.

I almost said I love