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I had twenty minutes before I had to be officially back at work, but I didn’t want to text Rhys to let him know about this fucktastrophe with Chad, so I called him. I told him that Chad denied coming into my duplex and sleeping in my bed, but he didn’t believe him and was still getting my door locks changed. When he asked me if Chad said anything else, I said no because I was tired of talking about him.
“Good morning, Jacinda,” I said, walking into the dental office.
She looked up from her computer and gave me a backward smile. “Hey, how are you doing?”
I stopped at her desk. “Dr. Robinson told you what happened to me, didn’t he?”
“All he said was that you needed some time off to be with your family.”
“I did need to be with them because Chad and I are over.”
Jacinda’s mouth fell open. “Oh my God, what happened?”
“I will just say that he has a temper, and I got enough of it.”
“I never would’ve guessed he was like that. I am so sorry, Riley.”
“Me too. But something positive has come out of all of this—something I never saw coming. My first love and I reconnected while I was back home in Cypress Hills. We were high school sweethearts.”
Jacinda side-eyed me. “Is he who you were blissfully happy with before Chad?”
“Yes.”
“What’s his name?”
“Rhys Silverman.”
“Do you have a picture of him?”
I smiled. “I do.”
“Show it to me then!”
I pulled up Rhys’s sweaty selfie and handed my cellphone to Jacinda. The second she saw his picture, her mouth fell open again.
“He’s a hunk, isn’t he?” I asked.
“Yes! A very handsome, lickable, biteable hunk.”
I chuckled. “He’s all of that, for sure.”
“I can’t get over how blue his eyes are.”
“They’re my weakness and Rhys’s dimples.”
Jacinda sighed and handed my cellphone back to me. “Why didn’t y’all make it before?”
“Because of me. I ended our relationship because I wanted more than a small-town life and started mine over by moving here. I didn’t think Rhys would ever leave Cypress Hills, so I never asked him about coming with me. When he and I talked last week, he said he would’ve moved anywhere to have me by his side.”
“That makes me want to cry.”
“I did cry when Rhys told me, and so did he. The truth is, Jacinda, he and I never got over each other.”
“That’s obvious. But are y’all a legit couple again?”
I nodded. “It’s crazy fast, but neither of us could help it. It feels right. What I had with Chad never did. I wanted it to and tried to force that feeling, but it wasn’t there.”
“There’s something about a first love that stays with us no matter where we go in life. They’re always there, floating around inside our hearts and our heads.”
