"I thought you loved me."
"Loved. It's past tense."
Meet Amelia Carlson, a twenty-eight year old mother, actress, and lawyer. Her love life has been screwed up from the moment she walked into those high school doors. Momentarily, she is living in California with her two twin sons, but what happens when she get a letter in the mail, welcoming back her worst
memories?
Now meet Chance Hicks, the one who got away. Wait, the one who let go. The guy who broke her heart, soul, and hope. They had a plan. Broken girl meets broken boy. They were supposed to be together until the end, their half hearts made each other whole again, but that all fell apart at the last second. It takes years to be built but seconds to be knocked down. What goes through his mind when they finally meet again, face-to-face?
As Claire aims to leave her oppressive stepfamily behind, she befriends Zion. Will he be her ticket to freedom or a distraction in achieving her dreams?
*****
Claire Olsen has had a crush on Zion Petrakis since the first time she laid eyes on him, but he never noticed, instead only having eyes on the school's it girl, Maddie Jennings. Knowing she couldn't compete with Maddie, Claire hid her feelings for Zion, satisfied with admiring him from afar. However, when a series of events led Claire closer to Zion, her feelings for him grew from infatuation to love. And despite fighting hard to keep her feelings contained by distancing herself from Zion, he was determined to show her that he's earned a spot in her life.
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