The Scandalous Step Siblings: First Enemies, Then Lovers
"Are you holding on?"
"I am holding," I told him, squeezing my arm tighter around his frame until I could feel the structural foam of his jacket shifting against my ribs. "I am not letting go. Not to the current, and not to them."
"I used to be so afraid of the quiet," he murmured, his eyes looking up at the vast, empty canopy of stars above us as we rode the crest of a massive, rolling swell. "When Silas had me locked in that studio, the silence meant failure. It meant the track was dead, or the product was broken, or I was running out of time. But out here... with the water and the wind... the quiet feels like the only real thing left. It doesn't want anything from me. It just exists."