Closing the Distance

Hadley’s POV

The room was dead silent. Not the peaceful kind either. The weird kind, where every little sound felt ten times louder, like my own breathing, the ticking clock, the soft hum of the heater. And of course… the presence of Maddox.

We weren’t even touching. In fact, we were both teetering on opposite ends of the bed like it was some middle school sleepover with imaginary lines drawn down