When Breathing Fails​

Summary

I’ve got a crush on my best friend’s uncle.

The word is he has shoulders for days and a waist you could span with two hands—a body built to drive a woman mad. The only catch? He’s a man of few words and even fewer desires, completely immune to the charms of the opposite sex.

During my sophomore year break, I went to visit my best friend, Rosie, in her hometown. She begged her uncle to pick me up from the airport.

Thinking he was collecting a child, the man had my name broadcast over the airport’s PA system.