One Little Heartbreak

<p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>I didn't realize being adopted at thirty-two years old was a thing. Then I met the Westbrook's.</strong></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>They're a family that grows every time a wayward soul crosses their path and now I'm an honorary member.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>A former spy I was married at twenty-two a father at twenty-six and a widower by thirty. To say my life is in transition would be an understatement.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>Winding up in small-town Vermont was a curveball I didn't see coming but I'm learning that the Westbrooks take their motto of </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>Welcome to the Chaos</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(51 51 51 1)> seriously and I'm in over my head.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>Having taken down one of the most notorious crime families of our generation I thought it prepared me for anything.</span></p><p></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>Then I met Ari and Ari met the Westbrooks and their chaos consumed us.</strong></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>My daughter will always come first but when Ari gets under my skin will I find the courage to love again?</span></p><p></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>Or will the lure and danger of my old profession prove to be the only commitment I'm able to make?</strong></p><p></p>