Falling for My Enemy (Dirty Martini Running Club, #2)

by Claire Kingsley

I’d never felt something so intense for a woman before. How could I hate her and still be so attracted to her? It didn’t make any sense. Maybe my brain was confusing hate for lust. There was research to support that. Studies on elite athletes showed they typically framed their physical symptoms before a high-pressure athletic event—elevated heart rate, so-called butterflies in the stomach, and so forth—as excitement. Other people framed the same sensations as anxiety or nervousness. The difference wasn’t in the symptoms, it was in the way their brains interpreted the data their body sent. My

“In everyone’s life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.” ~Albert Schweitzer