Ashley hated being at these events.
It wasn’t so much the bourgeoisie of it all, the opulence, or the meaningless conversations with people who had so much money they no longer understood what it was like to live in the real world.
No, what Ashley hated was the crowds.
She was as introverted as they came. High school came and went, and she didn’t attend a single formal, dance, school event, prom, or house party. Not that with her owlish looks, scraggly frame, and absentminded sense of style, she would have been invited to any of those anyway.
College had been the same. Her friends pined for spring break, planning alcohol-fueled benders in places like Florida, New Orleans, or Mexico.
Ashley spent that time at home, curled up on the couch with a book, trying to ignore her rambunctious little brother.
That all changed when she met Jason.
It was his eyes.
Those jade eyes, flecked with gold, seemed to envelop her in a beam of light. Before that moment, she had never felt the sensation that her feet weren’t actually touching the ground.
But that’s what those eyes did to her.
She felt like she was floating.
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