Chapter 34. Day 1: Homecoming (3)

She took his hand and led him out onto the terrace.

“You know one place we never did it was outside,” she said, wrapping her arms around his neck. “If today’s the last time—”

Aaron sighed and pulled her arms away from his neck. What might he have done to her on that terrace if she’d just undressed him like she used to and put his hands where she wanted them? If she didn’t say words like last time? This had all gone too far.

“Ethan was a great guy or so I’m told. He was a dick to you though, Kei. Completely unworthy of you.”

Her face fell and she stepped back.

There was some part of her that outright rejected the idea of love after Ethan. She knew he didn’t understand and truth be told, she didn’t either. The two men just didn’t compare.

Ethan’s love was firm, a constant. Something that was just always there. Had withstood the test of time. Then Aaron came along and somehow it just all faded away for him. Aaron Condor changed truths a decade in the