Chapter 259

Chapter 259

Zaid

I can't drive fast enough.

Her scent has filled up the car entirely, and she is all I can feel, see and breathe. She's sitting right next to me, so close and yet not close enough.

My fingers twitch on the steering wheel.

She's smiling, leaning back in her seat so carefree, like she's not feeling all the desperation I am. She glances at me every few minutes and the look in her eyes

tears me

apart.

She's so fucking happy. So fucking excited to be home.

She looks at me like she can't believe I'm real.

A year. Three hundred and sixty-five days, minus the month I thought she was still going to be over there. And somehow, I survived it.

I want to know every part of her again. Every new thought. Every new piece.

But mostly I want to touch her. Every inch of her, get to know all of that all over again, too. That part of me has been half dead since she boarded that plane.

in me that has been dormant and

she whispers, her hand reaching

it.

eyes are wide, her lips tugged into a smile that punches straight into my gut. I grip the steering

the same time. I swallow hard, trying to hold myself together like

like it more than when you saw it on video?" I

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nods. "I

nearly pull the car over. Her fingers linger, brushing over my

she does to me. Like she doesn't see the effect

I shouldn't be driving.

my blood is boiling and I want to lean

know everything about her time

get home, because if

Still running her fingers through my beard. Like

I'm real either.

dulled.

loss

I grip the wheel until my knuckles ache, my

her from

a ticket only the second time, but I managed to keep myself here at home. I

her name

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