Old Flames - an Adair University novel

I wake up every morning in my penthouse apartment next to a man who's been madly in love with me for the better part of a decade. I have the career, marriage and children I've always dreamed of. My life is about as close to perfect as I could imagine. So naturally, I'm waiting for the other shoe to drop. Nothing perfect lasts. I learned that the hard way a decade ago when Charlie Carter shattered my heart.

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I go to bed most nights next to a beautiful face and hot, young body. I wake up every morning alone. Which is exactly how I like it. You can't break a girl's heart if she doesn't give it to you to begin with, and I'm done with broken hearts. Ten years ago, I made a mistake, one that destroyed everything in my life, most of all Faith Lewis. But don't you dare feel sorry for her. She turned around and destroyed me right back.

Now she's back in Adair after nearly a decade away, and how dare she? How dare she waltz back in my life and make me question everything? How dare she judge me and the man I've become? She did this to me. I may have been the one to mess up, but she's the one who gave up. So yeah, I'm bitter and I'm angry. I'm angry that she lost faith in me. I'm angry that she vanished. I'm angry that she moved on so quickly and easily while I spent years wallowing in despair. But more than anything, I'm angry at how desperately I still want her.