Beautifully Scarred

<p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Lilah</strong></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Growing up all we had was each other.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Jimmy's always been the one who protected me-at any cost. I was content to let him clean up my messes. And when he kept his promise to get us out of our hometown and living the lives we always dreamed of I was happy to pretend everything would be okay... for a while.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>While Jimmy was able to leave the past behind mine felt like a tattoo I could never scrub clean.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Jimmy thinks he can fix me-he tries and tries and tries.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Sometimes love isn't enough to heal all the wounds from the past. Sometimes even your savior thinks you're not worth saving.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>And he'd be right... until everything changed.</span></p><p><br></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Jimmy</strong></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>I've loved Lilah for as long as I can remember.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>And for as long as I can remember she's pushed down the traumas of her past until they became poison running through her veins infecting everything she touched.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Watching the woman you love destroy herself piece by piece is the slowest most painful form of torture I know.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Giving her up may be the only way to save her. But how do I just walk away from the one person I love most in this life?</span></p><p><br></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)><em>Note: </em></strong><em style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>This book was previously published as All We Were/All We Are by Elisabeth Grace and Michelle Lynn.</em></p><p><em>Trigger warnings are available on the author's website under the P. Rayne tab.</em></p>