Chapter Five
Caleb
I told myself I wasn’t going to kiss Ella. I told myself there was something else going on with her, and I needed to know. I told myself we needed to untangle the messy emotions left over from the accident. I told myself a lot of things.
Yet, my body trumped my mind. With Ella’s body flush against mine as she rose up on her tiptoes and slid her hand into my hair, my brain simply stopped functioning. The moment her lips met mine, that was it. I couldn’t resist the sweet heat of her lips, the glide of her tongue against mine.
I didn’t know what first love was like for everyone, but I knew what it was like for me. Innocence didn’t quite capture it. When it came to Ella and me, there had been an elemental rawness to it, a purity. Everything was light and heavy at once. T
