Promise Me Forever

Absence doesn’t make the heart grow fonder. It only fills it with resentment and regret.. Nineteen years ago I lost the love of my life for four dangerous reasons.Power. Control. Money. Love.These forces don’t just break hearts; they shatter lives and mine was no exception.Left irreparably scarred I vowed never to be vulnerable again.I fortified my defective heart against heartbreak while channeling my energy into amassing an abundance of power mastering control and accumulating wealth.Love?It’s a treacherous illusion a game for fools; something I’ve become far too cynical to truly let it in.That and time doesn’t heal all wounds. Far from it.What I am is defective and proud. Having embraced my flaws I wear my scars and cynicism defiantly determined to live my life on my own terms — the best revenge to strive for.Until an unconventional proposition slithers into my world a dangerous and ill-timed offer in a treacherous game but one impossible to ignore.Turning it down was the most gut-wrenching decision I ever had to make but I did so anyway — for her.For the woman my defective heart still beats for.And the tsunami that shreds everything in its path including the fragile threads holding my barely stitched-together heart.. DISCLAIMER:Promise Me Forever is a dark contemporary romance novella with dark themes. It is a second chance interracial forbidden love MMF ménage / why choose romantic suspense dark mafia billionaire romance. It contains no cheating and a guaranteed HFN.It features a transgender main character.. Note: This is a 32000-word prequel to In Plain Sight Book 1 in The Prodigal Daughter duet. The prequel ends on a cliffhanger and continues in In Plain Sight.