The city was their playground, this glittering maze of crazy possibilities. The sun-kissed beaches were their escape, where the ocean whispered these secrets they couldn’t quite make out, and the sand warmed their skin in just the right way. Those quiet corners of the world became their intimate havens, where all their whispers could get as loud as freakin' storms.
The days that followed Cole's first visit were like some kaleidoscope of all these shared moments. Bursts of spontaneous laughter that just echoed in the silence, tender caresses that burned, oh so subtly, beneath the surface of their skin, and this growing sense of connection that just both terrified her and exhilarated her in equal measure. She found herself falling deeper and deeper into the gravity of Samson’s orbit, her he
