Release

by Suzanne Clay

Danielle Higgs's favorite thing was to please whoever her favorite person was at that moment in time. And for three years now, that had been Victor Hughes.

"Do you want to be ruined?" she asked. He licked his lips. His thumb drew a slow circle on her inner thigh before he replied. "By you? Yes. Absolutely."

Maybe she and Victor could— A day at a time, sweetie. Maybe you get to the point where you're brave enough to tell him that you're in love with him before you start planning elaborate vacations together.

"Go take a pottery class or something. I don't care what it is. But when you go, you have to talk to one of the other people there and have at least one pleasant conversation." “Me? Pleasant?” Danielle smirked. “I think if you practice enough, you might even make someone smile.”

People could say, you have to love yourself before anyone else will, all they wanted—but that didn't make it true. Sometimes it took one amazing person to look someone dead in the eye and show them all the good that they deserved first. And only then would it feel possible to chase it.