“It doesn’t mean anything. Your words mean nothing, Logan.” He nods decisively, pushing up from his seat and leaning across the table until his lips are at the shell of my ear. “Then I’ll just have to show you how serious I am. About you. About us. Especially, because there will be an us again, Riley. I refuse to accept a reality where there isn’t, and just so you know, there isn’t a thing on this planet that I’ve gone after and not gotten. You’re tempting a famished husky with raw meat, and rest assured, I’ll snatch it from right under your nose.”

