“So, we’re back to ‘recruit’? What happened to ‘Kiara’? Which, by the way, I hate. Usually my friends call me—” “Ki. Yes, I’m aware,” I interrupted. “But I would hardly call myself your friend.” Not after the heat I’d felt between us. I was still burning. Besides, I didn’t want to be her friend. I wanted— I didn’t know what I wanted. Or maybe I did, and that was the problem.
