Chapter 168. The Kiss

Ayana’s POV

I smile, eventually grateful. A sense of relief wash over me from the promise I am seeing in his eyes. And my heart is thumbing, telling me that we can trust him. And at least, I know that little. It will do for now.

“Alright,” I speak eventually, my tone just a little bit above a whisper. “I am sorry if I am being too insistent, okay? I..I just… I just have this feeling of wanting to.”

His head cock slowly to the word with every time that I waver, and me? I forgot what I wanted to say. “To,” he asks, letting me know that I left my sentence hanging.

“To know you more?” The statement came out as a question at the end, the heat rising up in me.

He smiles. “Is that all, Ayana?”

Well, what else is there, huh?

And here, he leans in closer, so close, closing the distance that existed between us. We are breathing each other’s pheromones, and I am afraid his are so strong. I swallow hard, and in as much as I thought I would do som