Love Lost by Hayden Hunt

It’s time for me to start over.

When I decided to move back to my old college town to start a more lucrative job and get away from my ex boyfriend, I thought I was escaping my past. I had no idea I was running to it. But when I start my first day of work and find my first love, Derek, working beside me it feels like I’ve gone back in time.
I never got over him. He’s the only man I’ve ever truly loved. But on top of the fact that I’ve decided to be single for awhile, he’s actually already engaged to a woman! Which doesn’t surprise me, he always identified as bisexual, but it does make it hard to work with him. Every day I spend with him, my feelings grow.
And he doesn’t even know.

I’m getting married because I have to.

Marrying a girl after years of dating her is just what you should do. I did the right thing by proposing to Brittany, even if I’m not passionately in love with her. Because, honestly, I haven’t been passionately in love since college with my first love, Scott. He’s the only person I ever felt head over heels for, and only because he was my first love.

So while some people might think I’m settling, I don’t think I am. This is just what love is supposed to be like, right? Love is comfortable. Sparks aren’t always flying, romance isn’t always in the air… Though I can’t say I don’t really miss the days of being passionate about Scott, that love has been long lost.
Which was all my fault.