want to see her again? That she’d actually hire her as what, a
 
 companion? She’d said something and it had taken quite a
 
 while for it to sink in. Cassia only realized then what Adalynn
 
 meant. She was a lesbian. The raven goddess, the perfect,
 
 beautiful, astoundingly amazing woman who’d shared a drink
 
 with her was a lesbian.
 
 She’d said she was lonely.
 
 It was basically a straight up invitation and Cassia had sat
 
 there, so naïve and green that she hadn’t realized what it
 
 meant.
 
 Could she really have wanted to sleep with me? To take me
 
 back to her room?
 
 It was too much. She couldn’t think about that here, in a
 
 lounge filled with strangers. She couldn’t let her mind go
 
 there, up to whatever room Adalynn had, where she was going
 
 alone. She couldn’t spend time wishing and thinking,
 
 fantasizing about something that was never going to be a
 
 reality. She’d probably imagined it. There was no way
 
 Adalynn had actually meant to invite her up there, had she?
 
 She wasn’t even hinting at it. Cassia told herself she was just
 
 being pathetic.
 
 She should go home and get some sleep. Clearly, it was
 
 much needed, because she was making things up in her head.
 
 Things that didn’t exist. Things that could never exist. She’d
 
 savor this as a memory, a sweet memory of a wonderful but
 
 fleeting, completely unexpected connection. It was something
 
 more than she’d ever had before.
 
 She’d cling to it, whether it was real or not, and tomorrow
 
 she’d go out and do her job, and the next night, and the next
 
 night, and maybe one day, she’d have the courage and the