Soft Enough To Heal Me

Eleven years is a long time to love somebody.

For Milan, it was long enough to confuse pain with loyalty.

What started as innocent middle school crushes turned into high school love, shared dreams, their first apartment, endless second chances, and eventually a child that made her fight even harder for a relationship that was slowly breaking her.

Monte was her first everything.
First love.
First heartbreak.
First home.

And no matter how many times he hurt her, a part of Milan kept holding onto the boy she fell for back in the eighth grade.

But at 27 years old, emotionally exhausted and raising a soon-to-be five-year-old daughter, Milan is finally forced to ask herself one question:

How long do you keep loving someone who keeps hurting you?

And just when she thinks love is no longer meant for her... she meets Saint.

Soft-spoken. Patient. Different.

The kind of man who doesn't make love feel painful.

But healing after eleven years of heartbreak isn't easy, especially when the past refuses to let go.