Uniquely in Love

<p class=ql-align-justify>They say you never forget your first love...</p><p class=ql-align-justify></p><p class=ql-align-justify><strong>Ellie Bradford</strong></p><p class=ql-align-justify>I couldn't tell you when I fell in love with Owen Harper. He was my first everything-first love first kiss first... Well you know. I never thought that I'd call him anything but mine. But that was the thing about first loves. They weren't made to last. Owen was destined for greater things and I couldn't be the one to stand in his way. So I broke both our hearts and walked away. </p><p class=ql-align-justify>But after a heated reunion I knew I'd made a mistake all those years ago. I would have done anything to win him back. To call him mine again.</p><p class=ql-align-justify>Even starting over in a brand new city all by myself.</p><p class=ql-align-justify></p><p class=ql-align-justify><strong>Owen Harper</strong></p><p class=ql-align-justify>Ellie Bradford is the only woman I've ever loved-and the one who broke my heart. The day she ended us I didn't just lose the girl who I thought was the love of my life that one I planned to marry someday-I lost my best friend too.</p><p class=ql-align-justify>Five years later I was home at the end of hockey season. Seeing her again I knew my feelings hadn't gone anywhere. But one last night together proved to me that I needed closure. She wasn't mine anymore. </p><p class=ql-align-justify>Then she showed up in Seattle in the stands at my hockey game.</p><p class=ql-align-justify>When her apartment flooded despite my promise to move on I offered her my spare bedroom. Even though I knew I should have been protecting my heart it was hard not to feel like we were finally getting our second chance. </p><p class=ql-align-justify>I just hoped that this time she'd stay. </p>