Infatuation

"I despise you with every fiber of my being. Force me all you want, but you'll never have my heart," I spat, tears burning.

He wiped them slowly, eyes dark with something unreadable. He leaned closer, voice low, dangerous, almost tender. "Don't fight it, Sweetheart. I'll teach you how to love."

He left me out of his life, just like that. And honestly? I didn't care neither then nor now.
Zade Romano had an intense, magnetic presence, and was impossibly irresistible, impossible to forget.
I thought I'd moved on, successful, independent, finally free. But returning home... I had no idea the storm waiting for me would wear his face.
Old flames, ego clashes, and a man who refuses to let go. Some fires never die.