I always said I wouldn't be the settling-down type—wild at heart, chasing the next thrill. Everything changed the day Lyric came storming back into my life like a hurricane—sudden, intense, and impossible to ignore.

We were kids when she left, her parents packing up their house to move for her father's job. We promised we'd stay in touch, and for a while, we did.

Then, without warning, the calls and letters stopped.

I told myself to move on, to bury the past, and never look back, making a promise of my own. To never let anyone in like that again.

Now, she's here, living in the same house, and suddenly, everything I thought I wanted doesn't feel the same anymore.

Contains mature themes.