Playing With Her Heart (Caught Up In Love #4) by Lauren Blakely
Prologue
When the lights go down in the theater, I am ready to pretend. I leave the past behind to become the character on the stage. I share a lingering look with the handsome man across the crowded room. I turn back to the others. Then a hand brushes against my shoulder. I shudder. Close my eyes. Feel him near me. Everyone else fades away. He’s suddenly the only one there. He kisses me. I kiss him back, and I can feel the kiss in every single cell in my body. Deep, and fevered, and possessive. My head is spinning, my heart is jumping. I am that woman on the stage and I’m having what she’s having. Love without reason. Love without fear.
For two hours under the spotlights, I’m living someone else’s life.
Then the play ends, the curtains rise, and I am back to being me. I come down from my temporary high, still wanting, still wishing, knowing only that I’ll need another role, another part to feel this way again.
I take my bow, and say goodbye to the character, to the kiss, to the possibility of that kind of love.
Because love like that only happens when it’s make believe.
At least, I’ve always thought so.
Then I met Davis Milo and everything in my life changed.
Irrevocably.