Seven years ago I climbed the best man at my sister's wedding.
Never again. Never speak of it. Sealed it with a handshake.
Easiest promise I ever made.
He lived on a mountain. I lived in a high-rise.
Then my sister's will handed us her kids, her house, and each other.
Two kids.
One house.
Zero privacy.
He's impossible.
Argues with me about everything, then decides the way to handle me is to not handle me at all.
He's also the man who walked into a wrecked house and had it breathing in a week.
Now he's in the hall at midnight, shirt off, hair wet, asking what I need.
I need things I swore to never speak of.
The sound he makes when he stops being polite.
What his hands do when he stops being careful.
We shook on never again.
One of us is going to break. Neither of us will be sorry.
Genre: Romance
Never again. Never speak of it. Sealed it with a handshake.
Easiest promise I ever made.
He lived on a mountain. I lived in a high-rise.
Then my sister's will handed us her kids, her house, and each other.
Two kids.
One house.
Zero privacy.
He's impossible.
Argues with me about everything, then decides the way to handle me is to not handle me at all.
He's also the man who walked into a wrecked house and had it breathing in a week.
Now he's in the hall at midnight, shirt off, hair wet, asking what I need.
I need things I swore to never speak of.
The sound he makes when he stops being polite.
What his hands do when he stops being careful.
We shook on never again.
One of us is going to break. Neither of us will be sorry.
Genre: Romance
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