She slipped into my life without pretense, and suddenly I wasn’t sleepwalking anymore. With her, it wasn’t complicated.It was wildfire. The kind that lights you up from the inside, burns away every doubt, and leaves only truth.
I didn’t expect to love her. I created this event, but did I really think I’d find love?
Hell, no. I figured I might find a gorgeous woman who I could see sharing a life with, starting a family with.
But love?
I honestly never thought I’d feel that pull again.
But I do.
Fully.
Fiercely.
For Sienna.
She’s the one I wake up thinking about. She’s the real thing. The future. The obvious choice.
So why the hell am I still standing here, shaking, gutted by the ghost of a man I never even kissed?
I drag my hands down my face and stare out at the waves. They keep coming, relentless, pulling pieces of the shore with them every time. It feels like a metaphor I don’t want to acknowledge.
Jake was a chapter. An unwritten one, a heartbreak that never got its story told.
But Sienna…
She’s the whole damned book.
I just need to close the past. I need to see him alone, without Riv and the others.
Just Jake and me, face to face.
Then I’ll let it go.
No more wondering. No more questions. I’ll look him in the eye, and I’ll remember why it never happened. Why it couldn’t.
And then I’ll go to Sienna, hold her like I mean it—because I do—and tell her everything. No more ghosts. No more silence. She deserves all of me, not just what’s easy to explain.
But before I can move forward, I have to bury the past for good.
I turn away from the blue water and head back to the mansion.
To the woman I love.
EPISODE 218
THE BITCH IS BACK
Misty
“I think I already told you,” Jake says to June. “Not only no but hell no.”
Seriously? June wants my newfound brother to take his clothes off for sweet little Ariel? That little Southerner will blush like a lobster.
That’s worth seeing…
But oh my God…
