Reesa had been kissed in the name of romance before. Her high school boyfriend, a creative kindred spirit whom she’d parted from on good terms, provided pleasing pecks. A significant time after, Ethan gave kisses marked by an earnest charm, but these warped with sloppy aggressiveness near the relationship’s end. She forgot both with Myko.

If the song that soothed her most could touch, it would’ve been in his kiss. She was swept up by the sensation, by the fullness of ...