“Reign?” I asked, even though I already knew it was him the moment that deep baritone slipped into my ear and settled somewhere dangerously close to my heart.I had been lying on the bed with one arm under my head, staring lazily at the ceiling only seconds ago, but the instant I heard his voice, my entire body stiffened. My hand tightened around the phone while my pulse began hammering in my chest with ridiculous force. It had only been two days since he left for Drein City, yet hearing him now made the room feel strangely smaller, warmer, and far too quiet for the chaos beginning inside me.“I said I miss you,” he repeated, slower this time, as though he wanted every word to sink properly into my skin.His voice through the phone did not sound distant at all. If anything, it felt more intimate because I could hear every low breath between his sentences, every faint roughness, every subtle curve of amusement that made me imagine him speaking while leaning back with those piercing blue
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