He had to give his helmet a little shove and dip his head down to kiss me, but I didn’t believe he was actually going to do it until I felt his lips gently press against mine. My body jolted in surprise and I felt him smile against my lips.
I love writing romance subplots. I think there’s so much character work you can do when you incorporate romance into a book – characters can grow or regress, their priorities might shift, they might start making some terrible choices. Wren’s character arc in this book is partially her discovering that shedoeshave emotions, even if everyone has told her otherwise, and giving her a strong romance arc helps this discovery enormously. I also really love writing wildly inconvenient romances – this passage is their first kiss, and it’s not really the best time to be kissing! They’re on the run from HARC! But they justhaveto stop and kiss, even if it’s not convenient. (If you’ve read RUINED, you know that I really went wild with the inconvenient romance plot in that one. And you will certainly find some of that in LISTEN FOR THE LIE as well!)
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