CARL

"Can we finally talk now, Alma?"

I was standing so close to her that every nerve in my body recognized it. My body tried too hard to be still while my heart pounded away in my chest as though it were in a race. Breathing was a myth in which Alma was involved. Her sweet cologne hovered in the air like a rainbow, collecting every part of the room there was.

I had made another shitty move with that article news, but if it led her to me like this, I couldn't guarantee that I wasn't going ...