The Paris Promise

POV GEMMA.

I have spent the duration of my maddeningly frustrating teenage years living exactly like a chaste, cloistered nun. I waited desperately and patiently for this exact, monumental moment to finally arrive. The boys in my high school classes never sparked even a flicker of interest in me. They were clumsy, awkward, and terribly unappealing. How could I ever look twice at a fumbling teenag