Only Once

<p><strong>Breaking news: Hollywood's biggest heartthrob Ryan Prince was caught vacationing in his hometown but who's the mystery girl?</strong></p><p>No I hadn't heard that Ryan Prince was staying at the very resort I had just started working at.</p><p>If I had maybe I would have called in sick.</p><p>On second thought maybe I wouldn't have because I really needed that paycheck. Being a single mother and having a lapse in child support had made me that desperate.</p><p>Still I would have rather avoided the circus that rolled into Hawk Tail Resort and the man who sauntered in with it.</p><p>All these years later and he was still that same gorgeous football player I left behind in college.</p><p>Except now he wasn't gracing the gridiron unless it was for a movie role.</p><p>I assumed he wouldn't even recognize me not with the actress on his arm and the crowd pressing in around him.</p><p>Ryan Prince didn't just recognize me; the angry tilt of those lips on that too perfect face told me he remembered exactly what I did when I left.</p><p>I thought maybe this was a gift a way to put the past to rest...but the look on his face told me he had plans to dig up everything that was unfinished between us.</p><p>The summer was about to end but it felt like my penance for the last decade was about to begin.</p>