Unlikely

<p>At twenty-four I'd already lived a thousand lives.</p><p>I was a daughter.</p><p>An orphan.</p><p>A foster kid.</p><p>A sister.</p><p><br></p><p>Someone to everyone and yet I was unrecognizable to myself. I spent my time keeping everybody else afloat while I was slowly drowning.</p><p><br></p><p>Until I met her.</p><p><br></p><p>The first time she walked into my life I was mesmerized by the mysterious stranger. When I came face-to-face with her a second time I was being introduced to my best friend's mother.</p><p><br></p><p>We were worlds and experiences apart unlikely in every sense of the word.</p><p><br></p><p>Everything between us was unexpected. Our attraction to one another the secrets I shared and the cracked pieces of her I so badly wanted to put back together.</p><p><br></p><p>We broke.</p><p>We healed.</p><p>We loved.</p><p><em>Desperately.</em></p><p><br></p><p>But I didn't know how to love her without losing myself and if she discovered the cost I knew she wouldn't let me.</p>