The Essence of Fate

<p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>I should've never challenged the man behind the wheel of that jet-black Ferrari.</strong><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Brooding and devastatingly handsome Ian McAlistair seemed to have the upper hand from the moment our eyes met. Then with his touch he lit a flame I knew would only burn me in the end.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>I wanted to forget our scandalous encounter-to forget that kiss but it became a drug I craved. Like any addiction it would weaken me and that weakness would open the wounds from my past. None of that mattered because Ian McAlistair gets what he wants. </span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>He tore down the walls I'd carefully crafted around myself. And I needed that protection it kept me whole . . . or so I thought. In his arms I found pleasure like I'd never known and in that pleasure I found the strength to let go of the pain.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Until the flame was extinguished by betrayal. Now I'm left with the ashes from the fire I so desperately feared. </span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>It is said if you love someone you should set them free. But I would soon learn that Fate strongly disagrees. When two souls are bound for eternity nothing will keep them apart.</span></p><p></p><p></p>