~ SASHA ~
His hand tightened on hers and adrenalin shot from her heart through her whole body, her skin prickling at the point where they touched.
"What are you talking about?"
It was near-black in the Jeep because Zev still hadn't turned the headlights on. His skin looked gray and his eyes dark. But she could see the tension in him, the flex in his jaw and the glint of anger and fear in his eyes.
"I was supposed to move to operations the year before. But I pushed back. Remember the summer between Junior and Senior year, how I was gone for almost a month?"
She nodded. He'd left on vacation with his family and she'd been miserable. She'd almost slept with him the night before he left, but they'd only been together three months at that point. She was still scared. She'd chickened out. He'd been so good about it…
