Jake

 

From the first moment I saw her, I fell hard—the kind of punch to the gut that makes you fall to your knees kind of hard. When I realize she’s running from something, every bone in my body wants to protect her, and I will stop at nothing to keep her safe, even if it means hiring her for a fake job to keep an eye on her. Her whiskey-colored eyes slowly get their light back as I show her just what it means to be mine and in the hands of someone who wants to give her everything.

 

Lyla

 

Eight months ago, I got on a bus, desperate to get as far away as I could from the devil I had let into my life. Determined to survive, I find myself in a small coastal town in Florida. I may live in a crappy apartment and work two jobs to barely make ends meet, but I’m free. Opening my heart to someone was the last thing I wanted. I shut down that part of me a long time ago, but my heart has other plans when a gorgeous tattoo artist makes me an offer I can’t refuse. Little by little, he’s saving me from this hell I’ve lived, but when my past catches up to me, it’s me who will do anything to save him...even if it means going back to the devil himself.