The Broken Protector (Dark Hearts of Redhaven #1)

by Nicole Snow

Somehow, it feels like a shower, rinsing off the dirt of big-city life and making me ready to step into a whole new chapter of me.

Nicole so beautifully explains the feeling of making that leap from the big city to small town living.

If I could change one thing about the world, it’s that. Give everybody someone who loves them enough to come claim their body if the worst ever happens.”

So painfully dark yet beautiful

Napalm fills my veins. Every inch of my skin feels incandescent, awakened by this man who messes me up in all the myriad ways.

Lucas Graves makes me feel at ease even in the total chaos. He soothes my jagged edges and blunts my thorns. Even when I’m ready to take his head off, there’s just something about him that makes it easier to breathe.

We’re going to fight. It’s what we do. We’ll have sick days and bad days and tragic days where life and death becomes more than bickering over what type of potato salad to bring to the police picnic. But as long as we always love harder than we fight, we’ll always find our way back to the light. We’ll find our fireflies. And we’ll always kiss away the wounds we claw in each other before carving sweeter ones with the way we crash together in bed. That’s who we are. It’s who we need to be together. It’s what makes us stronger, when we never crumble, never waver.

His warmth reaches down inside me and plucks all my strings with a wildness and fervor that belongs to me as surely as mine is his. His kiss proclaims he’s my husband, my protector forever, and I am his wife. We’re no longer broken when our love made us whole. I don’t know how I’m still standing as he breaks away. We’re just one big beating heart of the reddest passion that’s so wrong it can only be right. With the fireflies as my witness, I swear we’ll never be lonely again.