Knowing what you want and having to step forward to grab it are two different things. It needed courage that I seemed to lack no matter how hard I try. ~ A. Gupta
Violet
“Then, you shouldn’t have walked out of there like this, Cole.” The words scratched at my throat as I said them.
I closed my eyes for a moment, savoring his name on my lips. I had said it hundreds of times in my mind but for the first time I voiced it and in front of him no less. It felt intimate to me for some reason and when I opened my eyes and saw him staring back at me with those dark brown eyes I knew he noticed it too. His face was in the shadows as he sat on the divider in the parking lot behind the hospital. He looked dark and severe, but I wasn’t afraid of him. What made me pause was that I could detect the ai
