J_Writes
The woman everyone trusted to heal broken people was the same woman breaking me.
Hi, I'm Teresa Cortez.
For twenty-one years, I've lived as a prisoner in my own home, trapped under the control of my stepmother, the city's most respected psychologist. To everyone else, she's a saint. To me, she's the reason I forgot what it feels like to live.
I never expected my life to change until Nolan Williams walked into it.
He's cold, dangerous, and carries more blood on his hands than I'll ever know. The kind of man people fear. The kind of man I should have run from.
Instead, he became the first person to save me.
But falling for a man like Nolan comes with a price. His world is filled with secrets, enemies, and violence, while mine is haunted by years of trauma I can't seem to escape.
Now, we're both fighting for something neither of us ever believed we deserved—a chance at love before our past destroys us.
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