Chapter 21

ADRIANA

My heart stops, along with everything in me.

Wait, one thing keeps running. My thoughts. It is all over the place. Even as my heart is still.

No, it can't be! I scream in my head.

But nothing makes the voice I hear in my head go away. Nor the feel of the heat of his body. I can feel it as clearly as I am aware of the fact that I'm alive and breathing.

How the hell is he here?!

He has some guts to show up here and be in my room no less.

Wait, he couldn't have gotten past everyone in the border and my mother.

My mother!

In panic, I sprint toward the door. Attempt to.

I don't make it to two steps before an arm wraps around any waist. Next, my back hits a hard warm body.

Current rolls through my entire body everywhere we touch. I close my eyes, willing my body to fight whatever it is that is making me feel that way.

"You're not getting away from me ever again."

Xander