Before She Was Mine

I was never allowed to love Summer Sullivan. I loved her anyway. I wasn’t allowed to kiss her. I kissed her anyway. And then I took her heart in my hands and crushed it.

Leaving her behind to go to war was unforgivable. I survived—barely. After what I did to her, I deserve to be a broken man with a broken body.

I never expected to see her at the veteran’s support office.

I never expected for her to run right back into my arms.

Now Summer is mine again, but loving me is dangerous. I fell in with a bad crowd when I got back home. Worse than she can imagine. They’re still out to get me.

My secrets are deadly, and being with me has put her right in the crossfire.