Swept Away
Lyssa Cole

He was everything I hated.
Tattoos, motorcycles, and all things dangerous.
The bad boy who didn’t care.
Ry Lawrence strolled into town like the world owed him something and I wasn’t about to play his little game.
He could stay where he belonged- in his car shop and not in my diner. When he started poking around, things felt tense, uneasy.
But I couldn’t ignore him.
He seeped into my pores and breathed life into me I didn’t know I had.
Until he took it all away when he left.
We were fire and ice.
Yet together we were nothing more than swept away.
*Originally part of the Gone Coastal Anthology