Hopeless Devotion ~ A Jasper Hale Story

Book 3 ~ Eclipse ~

People like to say change creeps up slowly, that you can feel the ground shift beneath your feet long before the fall.
But I don't think that's true.

For me, the moments that matter most don't feel slow. They shatter.
First, it's a rush—the world moving too fast to breathe, to think, to hold on.
Then suddenly, it stretches thin, like time itself is holding its breath, giving you an hour inside a heartbeat to understand that nothing will ever be the same again.
And then—just as quickly—it all snaps forward, faster than you can catch it, and you're already standing in the aftermath.

I didn't know it then, but I was about to step into one of those moments.
And it wouldn't just change me.
It would change everything—my sister, my family, my future.
Because sometimes the choices that decide our lives aren't made in fire or in ice.
They're made in the silence between one second and the next.