Chapter 21

Thursday morning was just as awkward as the night before had been. My dreams had been filled with thoughts of the warrior I knew was sleeping on my sofa bed and I couldn’t look him in the eye after a night of dreaming about him naked. We barely spoke as we gathered our things, ate a quick breakfast and headed down to the car. Cole, as had become out routine, climbed behind the steering wheel as I clambered into the passenger seat still refusing to look at him.

My mind was preoccupied with thoughts of how to make this right and get us back into the comfortable friendship we had shared, so much so that when the sickness started in the pit of my stomach and I startled into reality I was surprised to see we were halfway to the university campus, but my thoug