登入He caught my face in his hands and pulled me up, crashing his lips against mine. We kissed for a long moment, messy and desperate, and then his mouth moved to my neck. He found that spot, the one just below my ear, the one that drove me absolutely crazy, and he kissed it, licked it, sucked on it unt
CELESTE I was still crying when Dominic slipped the ring onto my finger, the cool weight of the band foreign and perfect against my skin, and he pulled me into his arms without a word. I kept crying. I could not stop. The tears that I had been holding back all day, the tears I had refused to sh
I stood there, unable to blink. Unable to speak. Unable to understand why he looked nothing like a man preparing to destroy my heart. The love I felt for him surged through me with such force that my chest physically hurt. Why did it have to end like this? I swallowed hard. Dominic took
I did not want to go. I knew what was about to happen. Dominic wanted to make a clean break with me, face-to-face, the way a gentleman was supposed to end things, and he had chosen a beautiful garden as the backdrop because beautiful gardens made rejection feel slightly less brutal, the way flowers
But occasionally, without meaning to, I would glance at my phone. The screen stayed dark. No missed calls. No new messages. No I'm sorry, something came up, let me make it up to you. No are you okay? No anything. I did not have lunch. I had no appetite to eat anything whatsoever, and the granola b
I had proposed the affair in the first place, had I not? I was the one who suggested the arrangement, back when I still believed I could separate my body from my heart and keep one safe while offering up the other. I had broken my own rules by falling for him, and if this was the price, then so be i







