Lips on you

Intro He’s the last kiss she ever expected. She’s the one secret he never meant to feel. When rising pop sensation Mila Hart returns to her sleepy hometown after a scandal nearly ends her career, the last person she expects to run into is Jace Callahan — the silent, brooding boy who once kissed her under the bleachers and then disappeared without a word. Now, Jace is the town’s tattooed mechanic with a haunted past and lips that still remember every inch of hers. Their reunion is anything but smooth. Story begin: She sat there, staring at the steaming hood, her designer hoodie useless against the creeping cold. It was poetic. A literal breakdown to match her emotional one. Welcome back to Wicklow, the hometown she’d tried very hard to forget. The silence stretched. The kind of silence only a small, nowhere town could offer—thick, awkward, filled with ghosts you couldn’t name. Mila sighed, popped the hood, and got out. Immediately soaked. She stood over the engine like she even knew what she was looking at. Maybe if she stared long enough, it would fix itself. Or explode. Either way, it’d be more productive than calling her agent again. Just as she reached for her phone, headlights approached—soft, yellow, old-school. A pickup truck rolled to a stop beside her. She barely had time to shield her eyes from the glare when the driver’s door creaked open. Boots hit the wet ground. And then she heard a voice—gravelly, too familiar, too calm for how fast her heart had just jumped.