Every King needs a Queen. Sebastian isn't going to let his slip away, no matter how hard she tries. +++++ Sequel to Million Dollar Man

"If you think you can just come back here after years and pretend we don't want each other," he got up all my face making me momentarily lose the ability to breathe. "Then you're wrong." **** Orianna wants nothing more than to put her past behind her and start a new life. She moved away, with the one joy that has come from her past. She starts living a normal life until shocking news pulls her back to her home town. Initial plan was to go there and leave the next hour but that plan soon falls down the drain when bullets starts flying and she starts jumping on men twice her size all to keep her little family safe. Until it all becomes too much and help comes in a form she really couldn't face. Link Dane is back in her life. And this time he's there to stay.

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

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.

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.