Starting Back

<p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)><em>Kristina</em></strong></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>My accidental solo vacation takes a turn for the less-depressing after a drink that leads to a date with a brawny bedroom-eyed firefighter. I'm 42 divorced with two daughters at home. I thought romance was in my rearview mirror until the mysteriously intense Leo makes me feel like I'm the only woman in the Florida Keys.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>I know better than to get attached. But between midnight kisses and dirty talk under starry skies our connection feels so </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>real.</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> So</span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> right.</em></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>I can't give up my entire life for a fling. Not even for a man that reminds me I'm not defined by a failed marriage and a car pool calendar. And </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>especially</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> not one who has no interest in a family of his own let alone a package deal like me.</span></p><p></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)><em>Leo</em></strong></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>We were supposed to be temporary. Just like everything else in my life. So why can't I get Kristina out of my head? I'm the master of no strings no attachments. But our time together haunts me after she leaves.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>I'm not cut out to make a life with a woman. A woman with two kids? Forget it.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>At least that's what I thought until fate brings us together again. It turns out the move I made to be closer to family brings me to Kristina's hometown-and right in her path.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>I can't still explain the overpowering pull between us but I'm sure of who she is.</span></p><p></p><p><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Mine.</em></p><p></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>And I'm not letting her go this time.</strong></p>