Always You

<p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)><em>Ten years ago Lucas Hunter was everything to me-but I never got to tell him.</em></strong></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Not that it would have mattered. To him I was like a little sister he looked out for not a woman he wanted. I settled for a passionless existence that turned into a miserable life.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>But I had more than only myself to consider so I learned to make the best of things and leave the romantic fantasies in the past where they belong.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Until the one day the past came back and asked me to have a drink for old times' sake.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>But in the here and now things are different. Friendship is all I have to offer no matter how much heat is reflected in his gaze or that our friendly touches linger a little too long.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>There's a sad irony in finally getting what you've always wanted when you're not free to take it.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>When I saw Sam again after so many years she wasn't the same girl I'd always felt compelled to look out for. She was a gorgeous woman with sad and tired eyes and all I wanted was to make it better. When I find myself unable to stay away I realize I want her.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>She's not free to be mine but when fate gives you a second chance you grab it with both hands.</span></p><p></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)><em>Why did it take so long to realize that it was Always You?</em></strong></p>