ELRETH
It wasn't that she'd never kissed a male. She'd played the games when they were adolescents, and been at the midnight parties when they'd all snuck out of their caves. But she'd never understood the appeal. Never grasped the thrill.
She'd even tried kissing males here and there as she'd gotten older, but they'd always ended up laughing—or getting awkward.
She'd thought this kind of love just wasn't for her. Or that whoever would spark it in her didn't live in the Tree City.
But this…
It was overwhelming, the feelings that erupted inside her, burst through her the moment his lips touched hers—as if flames suddenly ran in her veins. She'd never felt anything like it.
How had she missed this?
How had she not seen it?
