Katie Bailey

Annie smiles and moves to let me drape the jacket around her. She shivers when my fingers graze her shoulders, and I try to ignore the way my heartbeat picks up.

“Vulnerability is not about winning or losing, it's about having the courage to show up even when you can't control the outcome.”

I don’t think about the fact that we’re going to have to explain our ridiculous outburst. Or about the fact that I’m having feelings I can’t possibly have. Feelings that I resolved to never, ever let myself catch for someone I worked with again.

I don’t think about anything at all.

I just focus on the sound of Liam’s laugh.

And laugh right along with him.