Behind The Clouds

Some loves never fade. Some chains never break.

At seventeen, Adams Eileen gave me a wooden necklace and promised we would always be connected. He was my first love, my safest place, my escape from a father who hurt me.

Then my father destroyed us. Adams was beaten and ripped from my life. I was left with nothing but the pendant around my neck.

Seven years later, I am trapped in a loveless, abusive marriage to a man who controls my every move. I have forgotten how to smile. I have forgotten how to hope.

Until the night I walk into a restaurant and see him across the room. Older. Successful. Still wearing the matching pendant I gave him.

And when he looks at me-really looks at me-I feel the first spark of life I've felt in years.

He says he never stopped loving me. He says he wrote me a hundred letters he never sent.

But I am married. I am broken. And my husband is watching.

Can Adams save me before my chains tighten again? Or will the past destroy us both?

A slow-burn, emotional, second-chance romance. Dual POV. Trigger warnings for domestic abuse.