She didn’t strike me as someone who was tuned in to every gesture, every movement; someone who could read him like a well-loved book; or someone who seemed to instinctively understand him from the beginning without requiring any explanation. She wasn’t… me.

As I stared at him, elation,excitement, and lust began exploding within me like a fireworks display, rising within and bursting with a range of exquisite emotion that I had never known existed, let alone experienced, leaving me breathless, nervous, and excited.