Chapter Twenty-One
Heavenly Creatures
Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.
- Buddha
ETHAN
Tampa, Florida
Present Day
This wasn’t going to be like the first time. Nothing would.
This was going to be better.
A decade of desire and weeks of brutal banter had only made me hunger for Kat even more, and I was tired of playing games, tired of pretending to be someone I wasn’t—a desperate CEO on the path to success, willing to do anything, or anyone, to get his way. That’d never been me. Kat never knew that “me.” At least not then.
But whoever that boy had been… he was back tonight, coming to claim the only woman that had ever mattered—the one that made the scattered versions of him whole again.
And four hours after leaving he
