Chapter Twenty-One
OWEN
I realized my mistake as soon as I pulled her into my arms. But it was already too late - I was a goner from the second she curled into me. And while I tried to be chivalrous, I'm only human. I don't know what I thought would happen this morning when I came straight over after dryland, but this wasn't it. I just wanted to see them. I just wanted to do something that would make Lisa smile. And if this doesn't put a smile on her face, then may lightning strike me dead.
Lisa will always be my kryptonite, but she's right. This can only happen once. Because yet again, our timing's off. We're doomed to be ships passing in the night, our courses already set by circumstances outside of our control. Hoping for a different outcome is futile. I walk her back to the bed. By
