“Jesse?” He opened his eyes at the sound of Ella’s soft voice guiding him back to the present, and he spotted her standing on the other side of the table where his cell phone lay faceup. Those beautiful blue eyes were the calm to his storm. Always had been. She’d never had a clue about his father’s temper or abuse, but she was always the first person he’d sought out back then to help “revitalize” him, in a way. There’d always been something about her that put him at ease, long before his attraction to her had become sexual. Her fresh outlook on the world made all the ugly at home fade away.
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