Author: kristieleigh
One California girl. One Canadian boy. One week. No strings. Two years later and he’s back. Nothing much had changed. Except this time, he was here to stay.
Coming home for the holidays after eight long years to say goodbye, I found myself saying hello. Melissa—or Missy as I remembered her—had had a crush on me. But being a typical eighteen-year-old, I didn’t pay much attention to the blushing twelve-year-old.I walked away without so much as a backwards glance. But now? Now I can’t tear my eyes away. Gone was the girl with braces and pigtails…in … braces and pigtails…in her place was a woman who took my breath away. I just had to prove to her I wasn’t the same guy I was back then. I prayed…
I’m always running, hiding to avoid the reality that has become my life. Hunter didn’t deserve the destruction I left in my wake—I just hope it’s repairable.Because I need him.I need him to love me like he used to, to make me whole again. To remind me that my reality doesn’t have to be like this.Most importantly…I need him to save me.
Hunter’s world was shattered when his first love, Jules, left town after high school. Eight years later, she returns home with her young son — and Hunter must decide whether to risk his heart all over again…