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The Pacific Ocean at sunset

It was beautiful Expansive Tinged with soEven souls trapped in i the Pacific Coast Highway toward Malibu, I realized that today was the first day that Kingsley had not tried to call th I had done so for a number of reasons, and one of the like this The man was an infamous womanizer

Maybe I had been too cautious with hi Maybe I had made it easy for him to be with another woman

To fuck another woain, too hard I hipping past other cars at an alar wheel

According to Kingsley, he had been ready for a relationship He had been ready to settle down, to explore so with a lot of hurt and had no business starting anything neith Kingsley But he had been persistent, and sexy as helland unlike anything I had seen before

But a tiger didn’t change his stripes

Granted, this tiger - or wolf - had a little help frosley up And Kingsley, being the dog that he was, fell for it hook, line and sinker

Bastard

Maybe I should thank Ishain, o to hell, since he’d caused this ive you iht? And great strength?

Had that beeninside me? I didn’t know Still, they were valid questions

So I thought about them as I drove on Ishmael had acted out of love and selfishness Tainted love Isher He had risked my life

He had risked his own salvation for love His love for

For ht about thatand I continued thinking about that even as I pulled up to Andre Fine’s Malibu beach home