About Last Night

*Kane's POV*

When I walk inside my room, I lean back against the door and rest my head on it, letting my eyes close. It takes every last shred of self-control not to open this door back up and finish what I started at the club. It seems like every cell in my body is urging me to do it, but I can’t put her in danger anymore. I need to just let her be with her nice, tame, football-playing golden boy. She’s better off that way.

I wait until I hear her go to and then return to her room from the bathroom, wait another five minutes and then sneak over to brush my teeth before quickly returning to my bedroom.

I lie on the bed and allow myself to briefly consider a world where Violet and I had met under different circumstances. One where it would be easy to be with her. I drift off to sleep, dreaming of this other, beautifully impossible world.

When I awaken the next morning, my dream land comes crashing down around me and I’m thrust back into t