Chapter 1
Lily POV
The flames from the bonfire kept dancing high into the night sky, sending sparks floating up like tiny stars that disappeared quickly, and the whole family was gathered around it on those old wooden logs we dragged over earlier, everyone laughing and clinking bottles together while the smell of roasting marshmallows hung thick in the air.
Aunt Karen was going on about that one reunion from years back when Uncle Tom fell into the lake trying to catch a fish with his bare hands, her voice carrying over the crackle of the fire, but I barely heard a word of it because my eyes kept drifting to Max sitting across from me, his legs stretched out casually, his jeans hugging his thighs in a way that made my pulse quicken every time he shifted.
We'd been playing this game a
