Every summer, my family and I take a vacation to South Carolina. If I'm being honest, it's my favorite time of year. Most people think it's because I love the beach, and that's what I always tell them-but the truth is, it's not the ocean or the sand that makes it so special. It's him.
Stryder.
He's the boy I get to spend all my time with, the one who knows me better than anyone else ever could. He always knows exactly what to say, like he's reading my mind. He's the only person who truly gets me, who sees me for who I really am.
But I could never tell him that. I couldn't risk ruining what we have, and I definitely couldn't break my girlfriend's heart. She doesn't deserve that.
Still, no matter how hard I try to push those feelings away, they're always there. Stryder has always been my number one-not just as a friend, but as something more. Something I can't admit out loud, even to myself.
Leila Williams wasn't always insane. Once upon a time she ran a small design agency that was rapidly growing to be one of the most successful in Seattle. She lived in a spacious apartment with her boyfriend of four years and college sweetheart, Thomas. She had a normal life. Her career was on the rise, and things couldn't have been going better.
When her agency lands an opportunity to re-design the website for Grey Enterprises, she's ecstatic. It's her biggest contract yet, and having a project with such a massive corporation will catapult her agency's reputation to the next level. Leila is completely thrown off guard, however, when the CEO himself turns up at her first presentation of her drafts.
She has no idea that the next 7 days will change her life forever.