Almost seven years later, I can still appreciate the idiocy of that arrangement.
I didn't plan to fall hard for the much younger woman.
Or obsess over her.
But I never stopped thinking about her.
As a former Army Ranger, giving up isn't part of my DNA.
So, for years, I've been searching—without success.
Hoping to get a second chance.
And suddenly, she's right before me.
Battered, bruised, scared.
A single mother.
When her boy gets kidnapped, and danger closes in,
it's a race against time.
And I realize the math checks out.
Protecting them means confronting my demons and her trauma.
But failing is not an option.
Not when all I've lost, all I ever longed for, is almost
within reach.
Almost.
