Where We Burn

<p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)><em>She was off-limits.</em></strong></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)><em>Until she wasn't.</em></strong></p><p></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>PIPER:</strong></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>I shouldn't want him.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>I shouldn't lie awake at night imagining how his hands would feel on my skin or how his mouth would taste against mine.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>But Christian Crawford has been my deepest darkest fantasy since the moment I met him.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>I've tried to bury my feelings for my boyfriend's father. </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>I've tried to pretend that the chemistry between us was one-sided but every time that cowboy looks at me like I'm already his I forget who I'm supposed to be loyal to.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>He's the one man I should never touch and I've never wanted anything more.</span></p><p></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>CHRISTIAN:</strong></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>She's the one line I should never even think about crossing.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>She's too young too wrapped in every kind of wrong.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>And my son's girlfriend.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>But Piper got under my skin the second she stepped into my world. Sweet stubborn Piper who's all fire and a temptation I never saw coming.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>I told myself it was nothing more than a passing thought.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>But there's nothing passing about the way I watch her.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>There's nothing innocent about the way I want her.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>I know it's wrong. I know touching her would destroy everything.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>But somewhere between the guilt and the longing I started falling for her.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>And now that I have... I don't know how to stop.</span></p><p></p>