Chapter 43: "Maximoff."

Caelum isn’t home when I arrive, and I'm grateful for it.

I slip into the house, then into the room and I collapse on the bed with my thoughts all muddled up and slight panic rising in my heart, because there’s no way.

There’s actually no way my heart would be that stupid.

I can be delusional at times, yes. Today and how it has progressed so far has literally proven that, but can I be that delusional?

Apparently, I can because the world responds to me with a knock at my door, and my heart lurches.

My heart does not lurch.

My heart never lurches.

It can rise in its steady beating, in its erratic pounding. It can do all these things but it never lurches. The tightening of the mate bond tells me that it’s Caelum.

“Sophia?”

Something in me warms at the deep, warm, velvet of his tone. That thing warms even more when he calls again,

“Sophia?” He releases a low growl that has my mind sparking with lust, “I know you’re in there, Sophia. I thought we agreed on a new start.”

My eyebrows crease