Breathe in. But the second I touched Sydney—held her—the neural highways of my mind came to a crashing halt. I understood the chemical reaction. I’d read every textbook and journal I could find on the body’s reaction to attraction in the last week and a half. A rush of dopamine, norepinephrine, and serotonin flooded into my system, but nowhere could I find why my brain stopped working. Breathe—
