Breaking Even (Sterling Shore, #5)

by C.M. Owens

That’s how people find a few moments of stolen happiness from an otherwise cold and disappointing world—they settle.

Then again, life is nothing but a series of settlements.

My father always said not to drink when you had secrets to keep. You never know what might come out. Chapter 13 RYE “This sucks,” Ethan harps as Brin moves off my lap and toward the wine.

Love is complicated, messy, and fucked up. Love is a relentless bind that drowns you and holds you down. Love is the last thing a guy like me can endure, because then it all becomes real and the fun is gone.