A Special Kiss For Ellie
When a man hurts a woman, it’s always the next man who’s left picking up the pieces.
I frowned upon finding the chair taken — my chair, the leather highback I occupied every day at noon in a particularly secluded bookstore nook. What she was reading captivated her, so she didn’t notice my presence until I sat in the much-less-comfortable, adjacent chair. When she finally lifted her face buried in her book, I looked into the most soulful brown eyes I’d ever seen, and in the blink of an eye, my annoyance di...