Description
°°This story contains sexual content and mature language not intended for readers under the age 18.°° \♡/ Lilly Hollands was just ten years old when her heart was broken for the first time. Her brother's best friend, the boy she loves, tells her he was moving across the country for college and she doesn't know how to live the rest of her childhood. As she grows older, Lilly buries away the pieces of her heart and rationalized her childhood love was just a silly infatuation. With her senior year starting and the shelter where she works filling up, she focuses on the future and forgets the past. That is until Joshua is back, as her neighbor once again and- to her horror- her math teacher. Lilly is happy to have her friend back, but old feelings flutter back to life when she notices Joshua looking at her with new eyes. Eyes that leave her breathless and body hot... Joshua Thomas is a man of his word, so he was expecting to see the small girl he promised he would come back to when he moved back home. When a gorgeous young woman runs into his arms, he is momentarily stunned. With his new position, there is no avoiding one another and her constant beautiful appearance is distracting more than it should. On top of that he reaches out to his father, another promise to his mother, after years of not speaking. The reason to distancing himself from the man only a secret to himself, but Lilly is there to support him as she always had even without knowing the whole story. Joshua is finding it harder to keep away from her and is enjoying the wicked burn she leaves when their skin touches. Despite the deadly consequences he could face, the temptations of making Lilly his are almost enough for him to cave into her sweet smell...
Prologue
