*~*Love Note: Rhett to Ayla – Cold Hearted by Winter Renshaw*~*

 I wish I could say our meeting was happenstance.

I wish I could say we took one look and we just knew.

I wish I could say falling for him was the best thing that ever happened to me.

But none of that would be true.

Rhett Carson was as cold as the ice on which he skated. He was as calloused as the hands that shot the goals that won world titles. He was also damaged. And broken. And he didn’t know it, but I knew all about him.

I knew why he was so bitter and angry.

I knew why he was so coldhearted.

But I didn’t know why I allowed myself fall in love with him, and I didn’t know why I couldn’t stop… even when he told me to.

And that’s when everything changed.

My Ayla,

Happy Valentine’s Day. I watched you this morning, when you were just beginning to wake. Your hair covered your face and you smiled a dreamy smile, and all I could think was how lucky I am to be with you, to have your love. Like a fool, I almost let it go, and yet somehow you came back to me. I promise you, Ayla, I’ll guard our love with my life. Now that I know you—really know you—I don’t care who you are.

I love you.

Rhett