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To love a person who lives with a constant ache-who has spent her life building walls only to have them brutally knocked down-is to be forever consumed. This is the lesson all-star rugby player Hughie Biggs learned ten years ago, a lesson he's spent every privileged day of his popular life trying to forget.

Hughie Biggs is the definition of golden: magnetic, endlessly affable, and the ultimate protector-a trait that is simultaneously his greatest strength and his fatal flaw. He has the perfect life, complete with an understanding, tiny redhead on his arm who provides the gentle peace he craves.

But then she returns to Tommen College.
She is the girl who was once unseen, forever fragile, yet fiercely resilient. She carries the silent scars of a childhood marred by neglect and violence, and now, a new trauma that keeps her constantly on edge.

She's the kind of complex soul who seeks refuge in solitude, afraid that being truly seen comes with a devastating price. The one who ripped his heart out, but who was, in turn, utterly shattered by a single, ruinous night.
Hughie wants to make her remember the decade of undeniable love that bound them.

She wants to forget it all at all costs, determined to finally erase the history that lingers on their matching rib tattoos. She's beyond repair, living a life fraught with unspoken danger, yet he is determined to finally see her-to be the shelter she never had.

What follows is not a fresh start, but a complicated re-ignition of a history that should have been extinguished, and a truth that threatens to slip out of what truly happened the night that ruined them both.

Hughie cannot give up the soul that has always been his, but he couldn't possibly destroy the fragile peace he has found with his new girlfriend.

He has a choice to make. And making it may just ruin everyone and everything around him.