Sterling Touch (couple cover)

<p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>I wasn't supposed to love him. I wasn't even supposed to acknowledge him. But my entire life I've had heart-eyes for my oldest brother's </span><em style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>former</em><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> best friend Cortland Haven.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>I can't help it that boys can be stupid and a feud broke apart a long-time friendship and divided once-close families. </span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Try as I might to ignore Cort I didn't miss his eyes on me from across a crowded bar twelve years ago. Oh the way my skin tingled under his appraisal. The way my heart pattered knowing he was looking at me.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>We shared more than a moment.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Now we're older and wiser. And with a little over a decade age gap between us and a divide greater than that between our families my heart still hasn't gotten the memo.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>No that fickle organ has other plans for Cortland and me especially when the silver fox is assigned as my new physical therapy patient - and the man is adverse to touch.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>I don't just fall for Cortland Haven again; I tumble hard for him when he should never be mine.</span></p><p></p>