He was wide-awake, but reluctant to leave the place that smelled so heavily of her essence. She was everywhere around him, from the long brown hairs he could see on his pillowcase to the rapidly cooling wet spot he refused to roll away from. He could smell her on his fingers and taste her on his ...
Becky blurted out the next morning after hearing Lily making plans for lunch on her cell phone. “What makes you think that was my boyfriend?” “Because you don’t blush like that when your dad calls you.” “That still doesn’t make it a boyfriend,” Lily hedged. “Are we really going to play this game?...
Somehow the world was still turning and life was continuing on around her, but inside it felt as if everything she knew had just tilted on its axis. Her stranger was there, and he had a name. Ethan. Ethan. Could it really be so simple? Would she have ever guessed it? Ethan. It suited him. But tha...