Protected by Nicole Baker

She’s my best friend’s little sister who I’ve always looked at as a kid I need to protect, until one summer I see her in a bikini, and she looks nothing like a kid anymore.
At her graduation party, she tells me she’s never been kissed and asks me to kiss her.
The craziest part, I do, and it blows my mind. So, I do the only thing I could think of doing.
I tell her it was a mistake and bolt.
Now I need to protect her from the last person I ever thought I would have to, myself.
I’m able to keep my distance for four years.
Now she’s back from college, but she’s not the shy, inexperienced girl I once knew.
She’s bold, daring, and more beautiful than I remember.

What happens when our world’s come together, and we’re forced to admit truths from that night that we always thought we would keep buried?