J.C. Reed

The thing with love is, you cannot choose who you fall for. Falling in love often happens at the wrong time, in the wrong place, with the wrong person. Just as much as you cannot stop growing feelings for a certain man, there's no switch to turn off your heart.

Wine?" I asked, ready to order."I__ rather have Sex on the Beach." He winked at me with a devilish grin.

Why do you want me?" I asked, suppressing the trembling of my voice. "I__ strange, definitely not perfect, and fucked up. Actually, a lot of the latter.___erfect is boring and overrated._ He smiled that lopsided grin of his that made my lower abdomen twist and curl with delicious desire. ____ looking for sexy, fun, kind, and honest. And you tick all the right boxes, Brooke.

Maybe someday, I'd find someone who'd prove he really loved me. Someone who'd hold me rather than let me fall. Someone who'd never lie to me.

I'd let him get under my skin, and now he had started to occupy my every thought.

The guy was a piece of sin. If he were the devil holding a contract, this would be the moment I might just give in to temptation and sign over my soul.

I hated him, loved him, wanted him, and yet I wished him away. So many conflicting emotions of wants and needs. So much fear. Not because of him, but because of myself__f how deep my feelings and desires were running, and how much I would fall if I happened to lose my grip.

To love someone so deeply is to risk losing yourself forever. Once I admitted my feelings to him, there was no going back__o hope to ever make my heart complete without him