Pining for You: Wrecked by the Woodsman

Xiomara:

Eli Maddox is my dad’s best friend.

Six years ago, he vanished into the woods without saying goodbye.

Now I’m back home for the summer, he’s back in town building some remote cabin, and every look he gives me feels like a sin I want to commit twice.

I’m not the little girl he used to call kiddo.

I’m grown. I know what I want.

And what I want is him.

Eli:

I swore I’d stay away from her.

She was off-limits. The one girl I could never touch.

But Xiomara isn’t a girl anymore, she’s fire in a crop top and a mouth that doesn’t know how to back down.

She’s not afraid of the wreck I’ve become.

And the more time we spend together, the harder it is to pretend I don’t want to ruin every rule I’ve ever made.

One taste, and I’m done pretending.

She’s mine.

Even if it costs me everything.