Fair Catch

by Kandi Steiner

Now, not only was I the girl on the football team, but I was rooming with the one person in the entire world whom I truly hated. Fucking perfect.

And then his mouth claimed mine in a kiss of thunder that beckoned the storm inside me to rage.

“Because I am scarred by the fire you started in me. Because you have reduced me to fucking ashes.”

“We are all mortal until our first kiss,” I read. “And our second glass of wine.” I chuckled then, smoothing my thumb over the text. “Eduardo Galeano.”