Nothing Like the NBA Ex

Kwinn Taylor, an interior designer, ran into Melo Christian backstage with no intention of letting anyone rewrite her summer.

One phone call put her on a private flight with a generous, gang-affiliated, Grammy-nominated rapper, and the pull between them was immediate.

Melo made his feelings plain: he wanted her, her smile, and a place in the creative world she had built.

She was still hurting from an NBA boyfriend and had not planned to fall this fast.

He was nothing like the man who had just broken her, and he did not pretend to be.