Hitting the Wall

<p><em style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>She's not a secret. She's a second chance.</em></p><p><br></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Shay</strong></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Six years ago the good upstanding men of Stonecut County ran me off. I took a secret with me. An inconvenient truth they wanted buried.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Actions have consequences. Their perfect golden boy maybe wasn't so perfect after all.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>When life hands me one too many lemons I'm forced to go back and in Stonecut nothing ever changes.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Kellum Wall is still golden. I'm still unwanted. And being swayed by his cocksure smile will most certainly ruin my life all over again.</span></p><p><br></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Kellum</strong></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>I believe there are still good men left in this world and I strive to be one. I was raised to live by a code. God and country. Protect and serve.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>I always do the right thing even when it's hard-and yet somehow I've made an unforgivable mistake.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>I want what I lost. The woman the child the white picket fence. But it's not gonna come easy.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Shay's a survivor. She doesn't believe in happy ever after and earning her trust might be the hardest thing I've ever done.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>She's got my heart in her hands though and this time-I'm not letting her slip through my fingers.</span></p>