Crash and Burn
SIENNA
“Si!” Ang called out behind me. I was losing her panicked voice amidst the noise. The sound of broken bar stools accompanied the shatters of smashing glass and still I proceeded towards the melee, determined.
I wanted to see those green eyes again. Needed to. They were a reminder that I wasn’t dead, that the life I’d had a chance at living wasn’t a dream at all. That it was real.
That I was on my way to becoming something more than this—this waitress in a crummy backstreet bar. Until life came and snatched it away.
But my big break wasn’t the only thing getting snatched in Tino’s bar that night.
From the fray, Javi emerged like a rolling hurricane. His brow furrowed, his face enraged, he rushed towards me like a desert storm, sweeping me up into his arms. His cu
