Tethered Hearts

A right person/wrong time, close proximity, friends to lovers romance from USA Today Bestselling Author Persephone Autumn.

She will always be mine... even when she belongs to someone else.

I choose to be in this place-my heart tethered to Shanti Mahal, regardless of her lack of reciprocation. I choose to stay in her orbit, to remain close, even if the repeated sting of rejection hits me again and again.

I love her.

I have loved her for years.

More than once, I've questioned my sanity. Wondered if I'm an emotional pin cushion. How can I not? Every time Shanti chooses someone else, it's a scorching blade to the heart.

Yet, I stay in her life.

I continue to wait for her.

Wait for her to look at me the way she does them, and matter.

Wait for the day she returns my feelings and chooses me.