I am still so out of my element with Dacen, but I’m exactly where I need to be. My initial attraction to him what seems like eons ago was like a giant slap in the face, a wake-up call, a big sign with flashing lights and arrows, pointing out two very important things: I was an unhappy bastard, floating through life and not taking any of the kinds of chances that really mattered, and I didn’t know myself as well as I thought. And ever since then, these actual feelings I’ve developed for him—me, Ryne, closed-off bastard having feelings, imagine that—they’ve come on so strong it was more than a
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