Pining for You: Where It All Fell

Emley:

I left him without a word. Thought chasing a dream meant letting go of the boy who loved me too hard, too deep. Now I’m back in the town I swore I’d never see again, where the air smells like regret, and Cade Richter still looks at me like I ruined him.

Because I did.

But I’m not running this time.

I came back to bury a past, and instead, I unearthed the man who still makes me ache.

And if he lets me, I’ll make him feel every second of what we lost, with my hands, my mouth, my body.

He was always home.

I was just too scared to stay.

Cade:

She left. No goodbye. No explanation. Just silence.

And now? She’s standing on my damn orchard like nothing ever happened.

I should hate her. I tried. God knows I used enough girls to forget the taste of her name.

But Emley Mason was never just a girl. She was it.

And now she’s back, digging her claws into my ribs and acting like we still have something worth saving.

We don’t.

Except I can’t stop touching her.

Can’t stop wanting the one thing that already broke me once.

She wants a second chance.

I want to hear her beg for it.