Hostile

by Nicole Dykes

I’m too forward with him. I know that. Normally, I’m cool and detached. People drift toward me, but that’s not going to happen with Rhett. I have to be the aggressor. The one who makes every move, and something about that lights me on fire. I feel challenged around him. Something I haven’t felt in a really, really long time, if ever.

“It’s the perfect contrast, Rhett. Both are beautiful in their own way. Both bold and strong. His choice of colors and your fearless framing. Just breathtaking.”

Feeling my body light up, every nerve coming alive inside me. And that’s exactly what he’s done to me. He brought me to life.

Please don’t kick me out, Rhett. I don’t know if my heart could take it.

Because when he does that and kisses me like this, I can trick myself into believing I belong to him.

Camden,

I didn’t know it was my job to make him smile until I met him. Now I know. This is my destiny. Making my grumpy guy smile.

Because when you’re offered love, even if you don’t trust it at first—when they show you over and over again they love you, you just have to accept it.