To The Chase

<p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>I've never thought of myself as forgettable.</strong></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>I'm confident. A little grumpy. I'm never afraid to speak my mind. I've got curves for days and hair the color of a summer sky.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>All that tends to leave an impression.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>So when </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>he</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> shows up two years after ghosting me acting like we've never met I'm more thrown than I care to admit.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Salvatore Gallo is shy brilliant and only speaks when he means it. He's the CEO of a billion-dollar cyber security company but he blushes when I tease him and watches me like I'm a code he can't quite crack.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>He's still the same man who made my heart flutter with a single intense stare.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>And now he's asking for a second chance.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>I should say no. I </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>want </em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>to. But this time he's not hiding how much he wants me and I'm as drawn to him as ever.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>The problem? He </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>is </em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>hiding other things. Like the three kids who've become his entire world. Choices he's made. And a life I'm not sure I'm ready to be part of.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>But Salvatore Gallo is patient. Persistent. Devastating in the way he shows up for me again and again.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>He's chasing me and I don't know how much longer I can keep pretending I don't want him to catch me.</span></p><p></p>