Collide

<p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Destiny is what happens when dreams collide with reality.</strong></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>I've made a name for myself as a world famous lingerie model. I'm rich and powerful now. Not too bad for a girl from small town Texas. All I really wanted was to become so beautiful that Luke my teenage crush would fall at my feet.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>But thirteen years is a long time.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Long enough for this little girl to grow up and glue back together the pieces that were chipped away as a child. Plenty of time for me to figure out that love isn't made of fairy tales and high school crushes who didn't even know I existed. Maybe it's even long enough for me to realize what's staring at me through my best friend's eyes - even as I try to say we're just business partners.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Then Gran dies. Now I have to go back to that same small town that destroyed me.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>I keep telling myself I've got this - right up until Luke shows up in my life again. This time he's noticed me but he comes with a troubled daughter that reminds me a little too much of myself. Then there's the new guy I just hired. He's the best person for the job even if he is my best friend's ex - and looking at my crush a little too hard.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>I'm supposed to be taking over Gran's business but the rumors are flying. This town hates me. My neighbor wants to see me fail my love life is out of control and Luke's daughter? It looks like she's going to be the only one who ends up hurt unless something changes. What good is success if I can't use it to help anyone else?</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>I came home to save something.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>I just had no idea it was more than</span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> just</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> a house.</span></p><p></p>