Chapter 367

• More people moved in at the next stop, and he had to shuffle back closer to her, her perfume getting clearer and causing him considerable pain. He could feel her, the heat of her body in the elevator despite the other people, and he was aware of only her and her proximity. He was almost beside her now, nearly shoulder to shoulder, save for a gap being forced between them by the man standing just in front of them. He glanced her way warily. His mind just wanted to look at her again and caught those beautiful blues as she did the same thing.
• Fuck.
• It was like a thunderbolt to his heart, and when she looked away quickly and stared at the floor, he couldn’t help the overwhelming need and longing to step forward and touch her. To lift her chin and stare at her and tell her he wanted her back in his life. He needed her in his life. Instead, he stared forward at the doors like a coward, trying to rein it all in and losing sight of anyone else in here apart from her and the sheer agony of this.