Tethered Hearts

<p>A <strong><em>right person/wrong time close proximity friends to lovers romance</em></strong> from <em>USA Today</em> Bestselling Author Persephone Autumn.</p><p></p><p><strong><em>She will always be mine... even when she belongs to someone else.</em></strong></p><p> </p><p>I <em>choose </em>to be in this place-my heart tethered to Shanti Mahal regardless of her lack of reciprocation. I <em>choose</em> to stay in her orbit to remain close even if the repeated sting of rejection hits me again and again.</p><p>I love her.</p><p>I have loved her for years.</p><p>More than once I've questioned my sanity. Wondered if I'm an emotional pin cushion. How can I not? Every time Shanti chooses someone else it's a scorching blade to the heart.</p><p>Yet I stay in her life.</p><p>I continue to wait for her.</p><p>Wait for her to look at me the way she does them and <em>matter.</em></p><p>Wait for the day she returns my feelings and chooses me.</p>