After The Break

Ten years I trained to be the best boxer there is. I had fighters blood pumping through my veins and I was a lethal opponent. One to be feared. Twelve years I spent with my first love, we were childhood sweethearts and I was ready to make her my wife. My brother would have been my best man, his wife would have been her maid of honor.

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That was all the time it took to rip my fucking world apart.

I. Am. Broken.

And not the kind of broken that can be fucking fixed. Ever. I will always be imprisoned in a darkness I can never fully escape from. Infected with a disease that can never be cured.

Rage.

Every fucking day I struggle to survive. I've not felt alive until now.

Until her.

Skylar fucking Barrett.

She is an actress, a millionaire, every man's wet dream. On the surface she has everything; wants for nothing. But I see what lies beneath her facade. She walks a fine line between the dark and the light. She's a sinner and a savior. And she has chosen me. She needs my protection and I. Need. Her.

I know I can protect her.

I know I can destroy her.

She is my redemption. My destruction.

But she is mine.

Even if it ruins us both.

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new adult

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