Shattered Defenses

(Neva's POV)

I shouldn’t have waited for Kaelen, but I stood there in the empty classroom like a fool.

The heavy door stayed shut. The quiet in the corridor stretched out, cold and hollow. He was not coming back to finish what he started, and the fever in my blood was turning into raw shame. I sank to my knees on the floor, my hands trembling as I scooped up the shredded lace of my panties from b