Chapter 59

Anaya

“Sooo, now that my brother is gone. I need some answers regarding your funky walk and the number of love bites I can see under your hood. I think you had a pretty wild night,” Cia teased.

“Cia, quit teasing me,” I grumbled. I covered my blush-laden checks. She is trying to kill me, I think. The amount of teasing she had done was insane.

She laughed and hugged me. “I was just messing with you. I don’t want to know what my brother does with you. But there is something different about the way you guys are talking,” she said, confused.

She is not wrong. After the conversation Nicolas and I had yesterday, I feel closer to him as well. It seemed as though an invisible barrier had been breached between us. It makes me feel giddy that he loves me and he trusts me.

“Ahm,” I cleared my throat. I flushed and said. “There is something different.”

“Okay, now I am curious,” she said.

“You already know I can’t tell you. You just told me that you are not interested in what your brother an