"""EDITING IN PROGRESS""" "What are you so afraid of?" he asked, stepping closer until I couldn't move. I felt trapped between him and the wall, and my breath caught in my throat. I looked down, tears streaming from my eyes, and whispered, "...love." I was broken, and he seemed like someone who could break me once and for all. Can I trust him? ~~~ Avery finds herself trapped between fear and the possibility of love. Haunted by past wounds that refuse to heal, she runs away from home and isolates herself from anyone who can possibly hurt her. But everything twists when she crosses paths with the one person ready to challenge her. Blaze a rich charming player. Owning up to his one week policy. He sets his sight on her as his next victim of the week but she rejects him. Humiliated and unable to get over the rejection, he sets out to unravel the secrets she clings to so tightly. He holds the power to either shatter her fragile heart or mend it once and for all. What will it be? [ Jan 3 Featured by New Adult Reads💜😁]

How can you lose something you never have? When your own mother poisons you to gain pity from others, how should you feel? Why was I, the youngest, being married off? How could I care about something that was never mine? WARNING! Viewer discretion advised: Story contains adult content that is unsuitable for children. NOTE from the writer: I'm an amateur writer so please overlook plot holes, grammar issues, or anything else a story is supposed to have. This is my original story so... as the saying goes "if you have nothing nice to say, don't say anything at all".