In Between the Echoes

<p class=ql-align-center><strong><em>Some secrets are never meant to stay buried. </em></strong></p><p class=ql-align-center></p><p class=ql-align-center><strong style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Alessia:</strong></p><p class=ql-align-center><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Grayson Dean saved me when I thought my life was over. </span></p><p class=ql-align-center><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>He brought me back to life...for a little while at least. </span></p><p class=ql-align-center><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> When my mother lands in the hospital sending me back home I run straight to the man I swore I'd never see again. Caden Hayes.</span></p><p class=ql-align-center><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>He should mean nothing after abandoning me over a decade ago. Right?</span></p><p class=ql-align-center><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Turns out he's still holding a piece of my heart. One that only he can break.  If he does I don't think I'll survive it. </span></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p class=ql-align-center><strong style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Caden:</strong></p><p class=ql-align-center><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Her name. Her face. Her eyes.</span></p><p class=ql-align-center><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Eleven years later and they still haunt my dreams. </span></p><p class=ql-align-center><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>I should be over Alessia Park. </span></p><p class=ql-align-center><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>She's off-limits. She's moved on. </span></p><p class=ql-align-center><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>But seeing her again is like a punch to the gut. </span></p><p class=ql-align-center><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>She comes barreling back into my life like a tornado.</span></p><p class=ql-align-center><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> Good thing I love chasing storms.</span></p><p></p>