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Chapter 21

He didn’t even mind that he was returning to his apartment. And Mathias. And the past.

Darby had given him hope for the future. 6

Darby slept in fits, tossing and turning in the bed that suddenly seemed too big for her. Rest was elusive for reasons more than discomfort, though. Edmund consumed her thoughts. Edmund, and his confession, and that kiss, and the warning, and everything else that came along with it. It killed her to think she’d never even suspected the depth of his feelings—Darby considered her skills at reading people topnotch—but even more than that, the knowledge turned everything she’d thought she’d known about him on its head.