Chapter 1:

The Reunion

I was curled up on my couch in an oversized t-shirt and tiny cotton shorts, nursing a glass of wine and scrolling mindlessly through my phone when the doorbell rang. It was almost 8 PM. I wasn’t expecting anyone, especially not after the disaster my life had become in the last two weeks.

I opened the door and froze.

“Ethan?”

He stood there in the hallway light, looking nothing like the lanky boy I grew up with. Five years had done incredible things to him. Ethan was now tall easily 6’2 with broad, powerful shoulders that filled out his black button-up shirt perfectly. His jaw was...