“Maybe I shouldn’t go,” I said, as Javier pulled his BMW into the parking garage at Miami International Airport. My flight to Boston was due to leave in an hour and a half, and I was feeling travel jitters.“Don’t be silly, mi amor,” Javier said. “This is the chance of a lifetime. I wish I could come with you, but we’ll talk and Skype and see each other at your school breaks.”I loved the way Javier talked, the occasional rolled r, the way every Spanish word—even street names—got the perfect Castilian pronunciation. He was almost unbelievably handsome: dark curly hair, with one stray lock that dropped over his forehead; cinnamon skin, deep green eyes, and lips that were so full and luscious, I longed to kiss them again and again.My life changed the day Javier Marisco and I first flirted, in the floral department at the Publix on South Beach. That evening, at a party I was organizing, we’d shared an amazing lip-lock, followed by falling head-over-heels in love. Since then, he’d been t
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