Reach for Her

ROWAN’S POV

He swallows hard.

“I made her carry my secrets and clean my messes and defend my choices to people who questioned them, and not ONCE did she ever refuse, because she trusted me that completely, and I have damned that trust in ways I can’t undo.”

The janitor has stopped mopping again. I don’t blame him.

“There has to be something,” Malachi says, and the begging in his voice is so naked