Ruin Me Softly

Shawn
I’ve been running all my life. I ran from my alcoholic and abusive father, ran from the horrifying foster homes the state placed me in. And then I ran from the only home I ever felt safe in. The one where I met and fell in love with Lucas Miller. I never told him the truth about why I abandoned him right after his sister was diagnosed with cancer, and I never thought I’d have to see him again. Until my job brings me right back into Lucas’s world, and my foolish heart puts me right back in his arms.

Lucas
It’s been eight years since my sister died. Eight years since the one guy I fell in love with ran away in the middle of the night rather than stay for Natalie’s last few months. Now Shawn has blown back into Charleston, and I’m determined to find out the truth about why he left without so much as a goodbye all those years ago. But the moment I’m near him again, all those feelings come rushing back. Just like that summer we met, I can’t get enough of him. Or his body. But how am I supposed to open my heart again to the first person who ever broke it?