It felt as though she was fooling herself, imagining that Charles might actually like her.

Limone held the phone tightly, her thoughts drifting back to someone from her past life—a person she had known only in the realm of pixels and typed-out words, a relationship that had existed entirely online.

No, to be precise, it hadn’t even been a relationship, at least not in the traditional sense—an unspoken infatuation, deeply buried. She had never mustered the ...