Chapter Twenty-Seven: The Distance Between

Riever POV

Spending the night with Miya wasn’t a pleasant affair, as I had hoped it might be. I had hoped my warmth would soothe her, perhaps my presence would be enough to comfort the ache in her heart, to patch up the rift I could feel forming between us, but it seemed she had already committed to shutting me out.

I had waited in the woods while she hunted, and when she returned, we snuck in through her window together. I held my tongue about the amount of blood covering her body when she returned, and she didn't mention it either, going to great lengths to ensure not a drop got on her bed when she scrambled over it. She excused herself to shower, and while she was gone, I practiced what I might say when she returned. She threw me some of her father's shorts when she returned, an……