Mine to Crave

<p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)><em>What happens when the confirmed bachelor and K9 veteran falls for the one woman who has no intentions of ever settling down? </em></strong></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Sure he has biceps the size of my thick thighs and a rugged lumberjack exterior that satisfies all of my fantasies about climbing a man like a tree but I'm not looking for a relationship-especially with a confirmed bachelor.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Besides I'm also happily single and don't plan to change that. Ever.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Maybe it's my hyper independence that keeps me firmly in bachelorette territory...</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Or maybe it's that every relationship in my family has devolved into a bitter messy divorce and turned those of us within blast radius into jaded bystanders.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Still Michael Kemp is fun to play with.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>I crave him like a puppy craves a treat.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>We can mess around and enjoy each other until something else comes along right?</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Even if I do catch feelings he never has to know.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>So why do I feel like he's the one who not only caught feelings but is ready to walk down the aisle? Is it the lusty haze and afterglow of our red hot attraction making him believe he feels things for me that he can't possibly feel?</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Is that also what makes me feel like I can't breathe when we're apart?</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>I have to call off whatever this is before one of us gets hurt only he's not making it easy.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>He says we fit together inexplicably.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>He says he craves my touch my time my insatiable spirit.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>He says I'm his.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>But can I accept that he is mine?</span></p>