Chapter 183

• Ninety-nine thoughts were in my head, and Adler was on all of them; well, not in a sweet way, no matter how much I wanted it to be, but that feeling that made me want to flinch from touch and hide behind closed doors.
• Which I did until Rune pulled me out and yanked me back for a walk into the woods to finish the swing we had been working on the day before.
• I didn't want to because seeing it woke the reminder that it was a waste of time. Unconsciously, I shook the thought out of my head, inhaled profoundly, and threw Rune a bottle of water when I saw he was drenched in sweat due to being too close to the welding