Lewis

“I miss this… Him.”

Her words are a bucket of cold water on my thoughts of how nice it feels to hold Ryan in my arms. I can’t be in here like this. I climb from the bed, immediately exiting her bedroom.

I lean against the hallway wall mere inches from her door. My heart is torn between the pain she feels without Carter and the feelings I’ve had for her from the first day of our business law class. My lungs burn; I can’t seem to pull in enough ...