The love I'd promised myself to find
Rhona said slowly, "I'm done. Not just with you, but I'm going to stop talking to you completely. No texts, no conversations in the library. Nothing. I'm not going to be the girl who helps someone cheat."
"You're not helping me cheat."
"Not yet."
"I'll break up with her," Adrian said, and he sounded like he meant it. "I promise."
"Okay," Rhona said, and immediately felt like an idiot for saying it.
They stayed at the coffee shop for another hour, talking about nothing important — classes, their families, stupid things that had happened that week. But underneath it all was this tension, this awareness that something had shifted between them. The touches got longer. His hand found hers again,