Midnight Cravings

Previously

…The conflict Maya had sensed wasn’t just between her advice and Elias’s pull. It was within me. The battle between the sensible, safe path and the thrilling, unknown road that beckoned. And as the last sliver of sun dipped below the horizon, painting the sky in a final, defiant blaze of glory, I knew, with a certainty that settled deep in my bones, that I was ready to take that road. The risk was immense, the outcome uncertain, but the promise of what lay beyond the edge of my comfort zone, of what Elias had ignited within me, was too powerful to ignore. The midnight cravings, once a whisper, were now a roaring hunger, and I was finally ready to answer.