Aurora's lips were trembling when they met his, not from shyness or fear, but from everything she’d held back for too long, all the depressing emotions she had been trying to Sublimate intoo wrok.

All the anger, grief, desperation, the kind of ache that gnawed at her ribs when the nights got too quiet and his name still sat behind her teeth. But then when they kissed, it wasn’t sweet or gentle, it was like the damp holding everything back broke wide open.

The tears streamed down and their kiss was soaked with tears that spilled too freely down her cheeks, hot and salty and relentless, like her body couldn’t...