Lust & Love
But when she had shown up on the doorstep at dawn over a week ago, her eyes swollen completely shut, hauling a cheap canvas bag, her mother had known instantly that something was terribly wrong.
Hazel hadn't even made it past the foyer before she broke down. She had collapsed into her mother’s arms, sobbing so violently her knees had given out. Sitting on the worn hallway rug, surrounded by the familiar scent of lavender and old wood, Hazel had poured out everything. She told her mother about the debt Liam had left her in, the contract with Xavier Sterling, the suffocating rule about emotions, and how she had foolishly, irreparably fallen in love with him.