Loving You

<p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Never lie about having a boyfriend and definitely don't give them a name.</strong></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>I honestly thought there was no harm last summer in naming Miles Asher as my boyfriend. I was convinced my friends from that part of my life would never meet him.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>I mean come on I'm a travel influencer constantly moving from one beach to the next and Miles is a small-town mechanic. He loves his family and friends and he's a nice guy. Or so they say. Miles has never cared for me.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>But now I'm staying in his town of Lovers for the summer and-surprise!-my vacation friends are too.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Luckily after he tells me no </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>twice</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> I persuade Miles to be my boyfriend.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Then I talk him into letting me rent the apartment next to his house.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Together we convince the town that we are dating.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>But ... one touch leads to another and then there's a kiss and it becomes </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>very</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> hard to resist a man who makes me want things I've never wanted before. Who looks at me as if I'm the only thing that matters.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Still none of that changes the fact that I'll leave when the summer is over.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>My life and my job are to travel. His isn't.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Knowing how this ends was supposed to be the easy part.</span></p><p></p>