I’m a medical resident, engaged, and settled. Just when I thought I was happy, he turns up on my operating table with a bullet wound in his chest.

And all the love and devastation we shared darkens my perceived happiness.

Bronson Butcher.

My high school obsession.

We were desperately in love until I made a mistake that severed our shared heart.

So when he wakes up in the hospital and hears my voice, he stalks me down the corridor.

He pins me to the wall and inhales me as though starving...

But he's not that wild boy anymore. No. He's a ruthless man who takes what he wants, and what he wants is to punish me for running from him, remind me how my body hums beneath his—

What he wants is to take me back to his city with or without my consent.

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