Adrift

<p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Rani Shah is everything I can't have-too young too sweet too innocent. </span><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Not to mention she's my late wife's sister and my son's nanny.</strong></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>So when she asked me to kiss her I should have refused.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>When she begged me to touch her I could have turned her down.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>When she coaxed me to take the one thing she's never given away-her virginity-a better man would have walked away.</span></p><p><br></p><p><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Should have could have would have . . .</em></p><p><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>But I didn't.</em></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>She should have been living the carefree life of a nineteen-year-old.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>She could have avoided all my broken pieces and jagged edges.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>She would have been able to save herself before I got a taste.</span></p><p><br></p><p><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Should have could have would have . . .</em></p><p><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>But she didn't.</em></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Some love stories are forbidden from the start.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Ours is one of them.</span></p>