A Second Chance At Forever

<p><strong>The last time I saw Willow Taylor I was chased out of town by her brothers with a target on my back and her broken heart in my hands.</strong></p><p>Fifteen years she's haunted me.<br>Fifteen years I've been tortured by her memory by images of her every night behind my eyelids.<br>Now she's standing here in my arms and I'm holding myself back from claiming her.</p><p>I swore I'd never come back to this dead-end town.<br>Yet here I am cleaning up the mess my dad left and trying to right my wrongs.</p><p><em>But there's people here who still hate me and want to make sure I know it.</em></p><p>I'm not that lost twenty-one year old kid anymore.<br>I'm a man who knows exactly what he wants and I'm only going to warn her once-she's playing with fire.</p><p>I see the look in her eyes and I want to scare her-to remind her that getting involved with me again will ruin us both.I told myself not to touch her.<br>Not to remind myself the way her soft lips taste.</p><p><strong>But I'm selfish.</strong><br><strong>I gave in night after night making promises to her I know I can't keep.</strong><br><strong>But the secrets from my past don't stay hidden for long and once again I'm reminded that guys like me-don't deserve a second chance at forever.</strong></p>