Another Heart

"Love broke him once. Now it's asking him to try again."

Summer is over, and Cruz wants nothing to do with romance. After his devastating breakup with Elyssa, he's convinced love isn't worth the pain-until Lilly reappears.

They used to be friends, back before life pulled them apart. Now she's everywhere: lingering by his locker, stealing glances in the hallway, coaxing him out of his silence with that familiar smile. Cruz resists at first, but Lilly has a way of slipping past his defenses. Against his better judgment, he lets her in.

For a while, it almost feels like healing. Lilly doesn't push for the pieces of him he's not ready to give-until she does. And when Cruz discovers the truth she's been hiding, it shatters the fragile trust between them.

The question isn't whether love can break you twice... but whether you can survive it.