Chapter 233— I Held Back

The same heavy silence lingered as Ayden closed the apartment door, as if the world had been left on the other side and the two of them were the only inhabitants of something new they still didn’t dare to name. Milagros set her jacket on a chair and headed straight for the kitchen. She opened the fridge without really knowing what she was looking for and stared inside for a few seconds—not because she was hungry, but because she needed an everyday gesture to bring her b