What He Doesn't Know (What He Doesn't Know Duet, #1)

by Kandi Steiner

“So, then, why would it have mattered? Why not just kiss me?” She was so small in my hands, but so largely present in every other part of me. She always had been. “For the same reason you don’t hold your hand in a fire just because it’s warm,” I answered. “Because it burns.”

I came to you because it’s always been you, Reese. Even when you were gone, even when there was Cameron. When you came back, I felt it. And I know you did, too.” I shrugged, eyes watering again. “If I am a river, you are the ocean. It all comes back to you in the end.”