Perfect Timing

I had everything I could want. Money, my business, a son that I adored. My love for my mother, father and twin siblings was endless. There was nothing I could want or need. At least that's what I thought...before I ran into her...again.


She looked familiar and I quickly learned we went to school together. But Janika, she was all grown up and something about who I presumed her to be pulled at my heart-strings. I, someone with trust issues and a known introvert, could fall in love...couldn't I?


I, Emory Peeples, could love her. Someone who had been hurt, caged and made to feel less than...couldn't I? I could make her see that love didn't hurt...couldn't I? After the bullshit I had been through with my son's mother, I could trust again. I could. I had to believe that.