Time To Live Again

<p><strong style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Can you truly fall in love with someone when you don't even love yourself?</strong></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </span></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Olive</strong></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>On the night of my thirtieth birthday as a new year begins I finally break free from my overbearing mother and the suffocating sheltered life I built for myself.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>As I step into a stunning hotel on Orcas Island I never expect to be captivated by Leo the larger-than-life hotel manager who's my complete opposite. With one smoldering look and a devilish grin he pushes me to the edge of everything I've known leaving me breathless and wanting more. With every magical moment we share I discover new sides of myself-and him showing us we're fighting for a life we think we don't deserve.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </span></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Leo</strong></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>I've always been the guy who keeps things light constantly on the move chasing new horizons to outrun the shadows of my past. But no matter how far I travel the pain of losing my best friend haunts me like a ghost always lurking just beneath the surface.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Then Olive walks into my family's hotel-troubled insecure and undeniably beautiful. Her newfound strength and courage to confront her guilt-ridden past ignites a fire in my empty soul exposing passions I've kept buried for years. If she's brave enough to rebuild her life maybe I can find the willpower to do it too.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Just as Olive and I are ready to dive happily into forever a shocking family secret from the past surfaces threatening everything at the worst time. We swore that no matter what the endgame would always be us. But we never could've foreseen how soon our love would be tested.</span></p><p></p>