Second Chance
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Ever have a moment in your life where it feels like everything is just going to hell? Like it's spinning out of control? If you have then you might have some idea of what happened to me.
My life was perfect or as close to perfect as a persons life could get. I had two amazing parents, close friends, and I had the greatest best friend in the world. Sure he was uber popular and I was the quiet little tag along but he was still the greatest.
Then I got kidnapped....and my entire life went to crap.
Now it's 5 years later and I managed to get away but coming back to my former life is anything but easy and when everybody wants to know what happened, especially my best friend Luke, it's definitely complicated. All I want to do is move on, get out of town, and do anything but talk about it; because I might have gotten away but that doesn't mean I'm truly free or that somebody still isn't after me.
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While tortured and held captive as a prisoner of war, she became my reason to keep breathing. The force that fueled my will to fight. To survive. When I woke after the rescue to discover the life I thought I was coming home to was but a figment of my imagination, hallucinations brought about by pain, desperation, and isolation... it nearly broke me. Fifteen years since I first lost her, at last, we have a second chance. Holding her in my arms, finally feeling the warmth of her skin as she melts under my touch, is like a dream. She and her two little girls are now as essential to my existence as the air I breathe. However, just as things start falling into place, the universe steps in, threatening to take it all away. I used to think that choosing her cost me everything I'd ever loved, but now I see that in choosing her and her children, I have the chance to reclaim all that I lost. They are my salvation. My true path to redemption. Which is why I'll leave no stone unturned, why I will scorch this world to the ground if that's what it takes to save them. And when I do, I will fight to convince her once and for all they are meant to be mine, just as I was destined to be theirs. In the Broken Redemption Series, one man's vow to protect the woman he lost becomes a battle between redemption, forgiveness, and the kind of love that refuses to let go. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This is Book 3 of Lucas & Emilia's Broken Redemption arc, the emotional conclusion to their story. For the full journey, start with Book 1: Broken Vows.
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