" It had been six hours since Ashna had seen Rico, but it felt like a lifetime. She missed him something fierce. The worry in his eyes when she'd left that morning, the determined hope, had been burning inside her. The fact that it hadn't occurred to him to push her to stay or to try to figure things out for her made her want to climb into his arms and never let go. "

― Sonali Dev , Recipe for Persuasion (The Rajes, #2)