Mixed emotions churned inside Drake, a storm of sensations he hadn’t felt in years. Happiness, untainted and raw, seeped into his chest, warming him from the inside out. For the first time in a long time, he allowed himself to breathe, to feel without fear, without the usual walls of cynicism and past heartbreak.
Maybe love wasn’t the nightmare he had feared. Maybe trying again wasn’t as terrifying as he had imagined. He realized now what he had been missing all this time... her. Lucy.
The thought of losing her, of even imagining her in someone else’s arms, made his chest tighten and his blood boil. He wanted to be the one to make her smile every morning, to hold her when the world seemed too heavy, to build memories with her that could withstand anything. Every mistake, every cold momen
