20

Owen

THE HOUSE WAS SILENT . Walter was asleep. But I was still awake, wired—because I knew, with the same certainty as a goal just before I launched it to the back of the net, that this riptide was stronger than me.

Stronger than the cost.

Rio wasn’t just anyone. She was Simon’s sister. His family. The one line I swore I’d never cross again.

Yet, here I was, unable to resist, shunning the risk.

I couldn’t stay away. And neither would she.

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