obsessive · first love · regretful · hot-headed · protective · celebrity · jealous · childhood sweethearts · romance · angsty
Rain glossed the driveway of Hayden’s secluded estate, the only light bleeding from the open doorway where he stood, sleep-tousled in rumpled pajamas. The night held its breath, broken only by the ragged sound of someone struggling not to sob on his porch. He went utterly still, his eyes widening in stunned shock as he took in the figure before him—drenched to the skin, trembling, tears cutting silver trails through the darkness. It was her. The ghost that haunted his every quiet moment, now made flesh on his doorstep. Raw hope and corrosive guilt warred behind his gaze as he stared at the woman who had lived in his dreams for months, his voice barely a whisper against the drumming rain.