Before Dawn

<p><strong style=color: rgba(30 25 21 1)>ABIGAIL-ANN ASHER</strong></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(30 25 21 1)>New York City was supposed to be my fresh start a chance to leave behind the ghosts of San Francisco and the insecurities that refuse to let me go. I came here to rebuild myself to prove that I am more than my past.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(30 25 21 1)>Then I meet him.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(30 25 21 1)>Mikkel Suarez is powerful magnetic and heartbreakingly handsome. He's everything I should avoid-yet every time he looks at me my walls begin to crack. He makes me want to believe in something I swore I'd given up on. Love. The kind that consumes you. But trusting him feels like a risk I can't afford.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(30 25 21 1)>Because if I fall I might not survive the landing.</span></p><p></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(30 25 21 1)>MIKKEL SUAREZ</strong></p><p></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(30 25 21 1)>My life is built on control. Everything in its place. I never questioned what I wanted-until I saw her.</strong></p><p></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(30 25 21 1)>Abigail is a contradiction-strong yet guarded confident yet wounded-and I can't stay away. She doesn't see what I do-her brilliance her strength the way she lights up a room. I want to be the man who proves she's worthy of love.</strong></p><p></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(30 25 21 1)>But she's not the only one afraid. There are parts of me I never let anyone see... but with her I want to.</strong></p><p></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(30 25 21 1)>I just have to convince her to stay before she decides she's better off alone. Because losing her? That's not an option.</strong></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(30 25 21 1)>ABIGAIL-ANN ASHER</strong></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(30 25 21 1)>New York City was supposed to be my fresh start a chance to leave behind the ghosts of San Francisco and the insecurities that refuse to let me go. I came here to rebuild myself to prove that I am more than my past.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(30 25 21 1)>Then I meet him.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(30 25 21 1)>Mikkel Suarez is powerful magnetic and heartbreakingly handsome. He's everything I should avoid-yet every time he looks at me my walls begin to crack. He makes me want to believe in something I swore I'd given up on. Love. The kind that consumes you. But trusting him feels like a risk I can't afford.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(30 25 21 1)>Because if I fall I might not survive the landing.</span></p><p></p>