The Secret to Heartbreak

<p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Secrets aren't meant to be kept forever.</strong></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Colton Adler was one hundred percent off limits up until the night we shared together nearly two years ago. Both of us forged a deal between illicit touches and unrelenting kisses.</span></p><p></p><p><em style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>A secret</em><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>.</span></p><p></p><p><em style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>A promise. </em></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>A vow made to one another that we would never be anything more than the one night.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Regardless of the feelings I still harbored for him I understood Colton could never truly be mine.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Since then we've kept our secret buried deep pretending as if it never happened at all.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>But now after attending my brother's wedding Colton was a flashing wave of hot and cold. One minute he was teetering on the edge of giving in to false promises of a forever with me; the next he retreated reminding me once again that I would never truly be his.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Secrets aren't meant to be kept forever and it didn't take long for me to learn I wasn't Colton's only one.</span></p>