Pride swelled, and I couldn’t help but remember how it’d been made possible. And maybe that should have been enough. His care for me. But with Ryder, being friends with him…or family…or whatever we were? It just had never been enough. I wondered how I hadn’t recognized it all along because a moment later, that energy pulsed through the air. The ground shifted. It wasn’t a slight tilting. It was an earthquake below my feet. A crack right through our shaky foundation.
