Priest (Priest, #1)

by Sierra Simone

“You may not ever be able to get out of bed in the morning with that security. That moment of okay may never come. All you can do is try to find a new balance, a new starting point. Find whatever love is left in your life and hold on to it tightly. And one day, things will have gotten less gray, less dull. One day, you might find that you have a life again. A life that makes you happy.”

She was indeed the perfect package on the surface…but below it, I sensed she was so much more. Messy and passionate and raw and creative—a cyclone forced into an eggshell. Small wonder the shell had broken.

It didn’t matter if she needed me to and it didn’t matter that I didn’t have a right to—the universe had been knocked off balance by this guy’s assholery and my fist itched to correct that.

there was no warranty for trusting someone you loved and no court where you could sue them if they ended up betraying you.

“If I’d never met you, I would never have really lived.”