XAVIER'S POV

I sat with my phone in hand for longer than I should have, staring at her name on the screen. Mellisa. Just seeing it made my chest tighten, made my pulse quicken.

A month had passed since Katrina and I ended things, and though I should’ve felt haunted, broken, or at the very least conflicted, all I felt was this magnetic pull toward her sister. Toward the woman who had turned my whole world upside down without even trying.

She had been keeping her distance. I noticed. ...