Just Don't Fall (Sweater Weather, #1; Appies, #1)

by Emma St. Clair

The first stage of acceptance is shutting up.

And as I fall asleep in the empty darkness of my hotel room, my screen lights up again and again with reminders that someone in this world actually cares about me. Even if I don’t deserve it.

But I realize safe isn’t something I usually feel. The mere idea creates a vacuum of longing inside my chest, like some black hole yawning and waiting to be filled.

“Wow. You were busy overthinking after I left.”

the hockey player plus the never-been-kissed girl-next-door would be a killer Hallmark movie. Not with actual killing. Obviously. But definitely some kissing.

Real or fake, I ruined it by oversharing.

“You are not an issue,”