Not Your Future Wife

If anyone asked Laurette Dava Vega about love, she would have laughed. Marriage? Children? Future plans with someone else? Not for her-not ever. She had bigger things to worry about. For her, every day was a balance between living and survival: family, school, work, and a life that never quite let her rest.

Relationships, love, attachments, and fleeting sparks were luxuries she couldn't afford. She had learned early that life didn't wait for anyone, and you only get one chance at building your own life.

Little did she know, the very thing she had spent years avoiding would be the one to leave the deepest mark on her-and the person at the center of it all was someone she never saw coming.