Resisting the Grump

<p><strong>Stalking the town recluse wasn't exactly wise.</strong></p><p>Davis was five years older than me...antisocial and temperamental. And there was the little fact that he didn't know I existed.</p><p>Still I gave him my heart and he crushed it.</p><p>So I picked up the pieces and ran away to New York City. I had a plan that would keep my heart intact for years.</p><p>But one phone call changed everything.</p><p>Returning home meant facing the past...and the man who ruined me.</p><p>I had hoped that the mountain had swallowed him whole.</p><p>But as I set out to help my parents I discover he's not only alive and well but that they apparently love the jerk.</p><p>He has no idea that we have a past which is both a relief and salt in the wound.</p><p>I promise myself I'll ignore how his eyes linger on me or how his touch feels like a live wire and I'll remember that once<em> upon a time he broke me and for that I refuse to fall for him again.</em></p><p><em>But I can't control that he seems to be falling for me this time.</em></p>