out into traffic on a freaking peddle powered, motor-less object, he was
 
 usually at work way early because he had this crazy fear about being late
 
 and on his bike; he couldn’t actually be sure how long it would take him to
 
 get there.
 
 “Kiera!” Wynn rounded the corner as soon as she shut the back door
 
 behind her. “Just the person I wanted to see.”
 
 “Great,” she muttered. “I can already imagine this isn’t about how the
 
 pick went on Friday.”
 
 “Well, it sort of is.”
 
 The back entrance to the store was fairly narrow. A ramp outside led to a
 
 metal door, and inside was a narrow hallway that branched out into the
 
 building. Wynn took up the entire space, and when he leaned an arm out
 
 casually against the wall, he effectively blocked off the exit. He basically
 
 had Kiera cornered, and if she didn’t know him better, she’d think he
 
 actually planned it. Okay, so she did know him and she was entirely certain
 
 he had indeed planned to get to the store before her to have the chat she’d
 
 basically been dreading.
 
 Why? Because she was a coward. Because every single time she thought
 
 about Romi her skin crawled. And not in a bad way. It was more of a shiver
 
 than a crawl. And that shiver often turned into an itch. The kind of itch that
 
 couldn’t be scratched. Thoughts of Romi brought a fresh level of awareness
 
 creeping up. She couldn’t stop it. She couldn’t beat it down. She couldn’t
 
 smother it. The spark of awareness turned into full-on flames that she
 
 couldn’t douse.
 
 The problem was, Romi made her feel like a woman again. Like a
 
 woman who wanted things. She made her feel, period. It was confusing.
 
 Annoying. She was scattered and she couldn’t seem to get the pieces of
 
 herself put back into the neat, tidy order that she’d arranged them into
 
 before she met Romi. She’d barely kept her shit together through the dinner
 
 with Shane’s mom. All of Sunday had been torture because she couldn’t