After falling out of the sky- quite literally- with an airplane, Amber goes though life simply surviving from week to week. Her traumatic experience keeps on haunting her day and night, but mostly at night, and it seems there's no way out. Nothing left to try for. If life is only a torture, why keep on going? The answer is simple: Adriaan. The man has managed to get through her defences and keeps her hope alive. He's the reason the get out of bed in the morning. He's the reason to push through the terror encompassing her. He's also her therapist. A new fear surfaces past the trauma: confessing her feelings for him. Adriaan couldn't possibly love her back. Not only because relationships between a therapist and their patient are not allowed, but also because she's damaged. Keeping her obsession secret draws Amber closer to Huub. He's nice. He's successful. He's good in bed. But he's not Adriaan. Amber struggles through life, holding onto a small spark of hope and the love she keeps on running from. Angels Around Us was first published as part of Tease Me Contemporary Romance Collection. ——- “What would you like to talk about today?” he asks when he looks up from his notebook. There it the question. “I want to talk about the airplane,” I reply, looking away from him. “Okay, Amber.” The easiness from his voice is gone as if he is dreading this conversation as much as I am. “You were going to the airport with your sister,” Adriaan recounts. “Yes, I was. She dropped me off at the ‘kiss and fly’ zone. Getting through security was no trouble; my luggage was taken by the woman at check-in and sent directly to the plane. I only had a small bag with me and a neck pillow. I was early, so the waiting area close to where my flight was going out from was quite empty, but after a while … an older American woman sat across from me. They … they like to talk, Americans. She was telling me how her daughter lived in Amsterdam, and she was going … that she would visit her. How she’d never been outside of the USA before, but there was a first time for everything. “When the boarding started, it was a lot busier. A guy in front of me in the queue had a skateboard strapped to his backpack. A woman with two young children was trying to find their passports while one of them was pulling her skirt. A couple … So many people, Adriaan. So many … so many lives.”