There were plenty of white males on campus with Bess, but they had never paid her any attention, and she had returned the favor. She’d never got a chance to marvel at how beautiful their creamy complexion was or how easy it could be to get lost in a bright green gaze. What the heck? This guy could have very well killed two people, set them on fire, and come to hurt her, and she was standing there in front of him coming to some silly realization that maybe she had missed out on a certain population of guys based on the color of their skin.

Author: Inger Iversen