Below Zero (The STEMinist Novellas, #3)

by Ali Hazelwood

“How did you know that I was going to need you?” “I didn’t, Hannah.” His chest rises and falls in a deep sigh. Another man would be gloating by now. Ian…I think he just wishes he could have spared me this. “I was just afraid that something might happen to you. And I don’t trust Merel. Not with you.”

“Is that why you came to rescue me?” I tease. “Because you were thinking about it? Because you have been secretly pining for years?” He meets my eyes squarely. “I don’t know that there was anything secret about that.”