This is the sequel (continuation) of After. Hardin and Tessa's relationship will be tested in ways she never expected, but he knew of all along.

The passionate story of Tessa and Hardin continues as family secrets, deep betrayals, and career opportunities threaten to tear them apart.

Tessa Young is an 18 year old college student with a simple life, excellent grades, and a sweet boyfriend. She always has things planned out ahead of time, until she meets a rude boy named Hardin, with too many tattoos and piercings who shatters her plans.

"I am a complicated person. I have different sides of me, Well i guess. All of us has a different sides. A different sides that people would find it hard to understand even the closest person to you. But then.. I met someone.. He really is the living proof of an asshole. But he is the one who believed so much in me no matter how complicated i am. Even if i pushed him away so many damn time, i always find him behind me. He stayed.." Her "I am much complicated kind of person. I have always thought that my life would be always in the dark. I have always thought that i would not be able to get out of my dark past. Not until she came, Without her knowing she slowly started to put lights in my life. She started to make me feel alive that i have never felt before. She started to build a way with more lights for me to go forward. And there's this something on her that makes me want to be a better person to deserve her. I wanted to be a better person for her. And that's when i said to myself that i would never let this girl go. I will stay with her until my very last breath.." Him "I can't say it out loud. But he means the world to me. He became the person i love the most. I love him, i really do". Her "Fuck. I love her. I fucking love her and i can't lose her again!". Him