Chapter 296

Sienna’s POV

Please Kieran. He slowly touched my fingers, the contact making me gasp softly. I don’t pull away when his fingers touch mine.

For a second, I think I might. That instinct is still there, telling me closeness is unnecessary, that attachment is weakness, that I don’t need him.

But then his skin brushes mine… and something inside me trembles.

His hand is warm. So warm. I didn’t realize how cold I’ve been until now. The heat seeps into my fingers slowly, like thawing ice, and I feel every little detail I had stopped noticing, the roughness of his palm, the familiar calluses along his fingers, the slight tremble he’s trying so hard to hide.

That tremble breaks something in me.

My throat tightens. He’s scared. Not of me… not exactly. Of losing me.m Again.

My chest aches suddenly , like something forcing its way back to life after being buried too long. I didn't understand it at first. The feeling is overwhelming, too big