Chapter 7

Clothes lay strewn across the floor, and the tension between us was heating up fast.

He kissed me deeply, and I closed my eyes, letting myself drown in the sensation, trying not to think about all those suffocating realities.

Just as passion overwhelmed us and we were about to lose ourselves completely, Matthew's phone, sitting on the nightstand, started ringing sharply.

It was a special ringtone, the one he'd set just for Lily.

He froze, his movements coming to an abrupt halt, instinctively reaching for the phone.

I gasped, my arms tightening around his back. I whispered, "Matthew, I can't…