Anne-Marie Meyer

I can’t protect you and my daughter in separate houses. So, for tonight, you’re coming with me,”

We’re all a little broken somehow. All we can hope to find in this life is that person who gathers and protects all of our broken pieces until we’re ready to heal.”

MILES

She shrieked and wiggled away before she wrapped her small arms around my neck and squeezed.

She was holding her doll by one arm and staring out the window as she bobbed her head to the beat.

I was never going to find love again.

“Titan?” I asked, my voice coming out a whisper. His parents named

“But Shelby ended up pregnant, and Clint took

off. Before they could find him, Shelby lost the baby and left town.”

Shelby was standing next to the door in pink satin pajamas with her arms wrapped around her chest and her eyes wide.

I’d fallen in love with her in high school. There hadn’t been anything I wanted more than to be with her.