Can I ride you, Luca?....Craving my best friend’s brother
Every flash of light was a slap in the face to the girl who had been riding him in a boat house forty-eight hours ago.
"So, Emma," Sophie said, her eyes suddenly fixing on mine. They weren't blue; they were the color of a shallow sea over white sand—beautiful, but impossible to see the bottom of. "Hannah tells me you’re a writer. Fiction, isn't it? Something about... romances?"
The way she said "romances" made it sound like I was writing dirty limericks on bathroom walls.
"Yes," I said, my voice remarkably steady despite the internal earthquake. "I write genre fiction. It’s a lot of work, but I enjoy the world-building."