JACKSON
It didn’t matter that it had been more than two months since I saw Raymond, my heart did that funny kick in my chest when I finally laid eyes on him. He looked totally different, in a good way. Where he had been cute and boyish before, he now looked kind of rugged and manly. His round face had thinned out so that he now had a distinguished jaw line. He’d finally gotten a haircut, which made him look totally different. And when I wrapped my arms around him, his body was lean and hard. I would have felt lost if he hadn’t been smiling at me with those same, soft brown eyes.
I had a whole speech prepared for him, but it flew right out of my mind when I finally laid eyes on him. It boiled down to, “Can we start over?”
I saw the doubts flickering in his eyes, and I held my b
