Chapter 135

SEBASTIAN

For a moment, I genuinely thought she was joking.

She had to be.

No one asked that question after the week we’d had, after the past five days of confessing, fighting, protecting each other, and clinging to each other like we were both drowning and the other was oxygen.

After we’d just…

Yeah.

But Dahlia wasn’t joking.

She was looking up at me with those soft, uncertain eyes, biting her lip, her voice small and hopeful in a way that punched straight through my ribs.

“Does this mean I’m now your girlfriend?”

My brain short-circuited.

Not because I didn’t want her to be. But because I’d assumed, stupidly, that she knew. Yes, she raised the point when we had our fight, and I even clarified. When has she not been my girlfriend?

Of course she didn’t.

This was Dahlia. The girl who second-guessed every good thing like the universe was playing a trick on her. The girl who was terrified of being chosen, so she al